AN ACT relating to gasoline taxes; authorizing expenditures of amounts attributable to motorboat gasoline tax distributions as specified; and providing for an effective date.
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Enacted
This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.
Sponsor
Appropriations
Last action
2020-03-09
Official status
enrolled
Effective date
7/1/2020
Plain English Breakdown
The summary does not provide specific details about how much money will be available from motorboat gasoline taxes, leaving this as an unknown.
Motorboat Gasoline Tax Distribution Act
The Motorboat Gasoline Tax Distribution Act allows the Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources to use money from motorboat gasoline taxes for constructing, maintaining, operating, and ensuring safety of boating facilities in state parks and recreation areas.
What This Bill Does
Changes how money collected from motorboats can be used by the state parks department.
Allows the department to spend this money on construction, maintenance, operation, and ensuring the safety of boating facilities in state parks and state recreation areas.
Permits the department to give grants to governmental entities for improving publicly owned boating facilities.
Who It Names or Affects
The Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources
Local government entities that manage public parks and recreational facilities
Terms To Know
Motorboat Gasoline Tax Distribution
Money collected from taxes on fuel used in motorboats, which is set aside for specific uses related to boating.
Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources
The state agency responsible for managing parks, recreation areas, and cultural resources.
Limits and Unknowns
Does not specify how much money will be available from motorboat gasoline taxes.
Only applies to improvements in boating facilities at state parks and public recreational areas.
Amendments
These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.
Plain English: The amendment changes the title of HB0195 and modifies several sections to increase gasoline tax rates and allocate funds for snowmobile and off-road recreational vehicle trail improvements.
Changes the bill's catch title by removing 'Motorboats-'
Increases the gasoline tax rate from twenty-four cents per gallon to twenty-seven cents per gallon
Adds a deduction for fuel used in snowmobiles, increasing the amount credited to improve Wyoming’s snowmobile trails
Adds a deduction for fuel used in off-road recreational vehicles, allocating funds specifically for improving their trails
The exact impact on motorboat gasoline tax distributions is unclear due to incomplete information.
Bill History
2020-03-09LSO
Assigned Chapter Number 25
2020-03-09Governor
Governor Signed HEA No. 0020
2020-03-05Senate
S President Signed HEA No. 0020
2020-03-05House
H Speaker Signed HEA No. 0020
2020-03-04LSO
Assigned Number HEA No. 0020
2020-03-04Senate
S 3rd Reading:Passed 29-1-0-0-0
2020-03-03Senate
S 2nd Reading:Passed
2020-03-02Senate
S COW:Passed
2020-02-27Senate
S Placed on General File
2020-02-27Senate
S02 - Appropriations:Recommend Do Pass 5-0-0-0-0
2020-02-26Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S02 - Appropriations
2020-02-25Senate
S Received for Introduction
2020-02-25House
H 3rd Reading:Passed 52-7-1-0-0
2020-02-24House
H 2nd Reading:Passed
2020-02-21House
H 2nd Reading:Laid Back
2020-02-20House
H COW:Passed
2020-02-17House
H Placed on General File
2020-02-17House
H02 - Appropriations:Recommend Do Pass 7-0-0-0-0
2020-02-13House
H Introduced and Referred to H02 - Appropriations 52-7-1-0-0
2020-02-12House
H Received for Introduction
2020-02-11LSO
Bill Number Assigned
Official Summary Text
Bill Summary - 20LSO-0453
Bill No.:
HB0195
Effective:
7/1/2020 12:00:00 AM
LSO No.:
20LSO-0453
Enrolled Act No.:
HEA No. 0020
Chapter No.:
25
Prime Sponsor:
Joint Appropriations Committee
Catch Title:
Motorboats-gasoline tax distribution.
Subject:
Expenditure of motorboat gasoline tax distribution.
Summary/Major Elements:
Currently, an estimated amount of tax collected on fuel used in motorboats is distributed to the Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources. This distribution may only be expended by the Department to improve boating facilities in state parks and state recreation areas and to provide grants to governmental entities for the improvement of publicly owned boating facilities.
The act authorizes the Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources to also expend the motorboat gasoline tax distribution on construction, maintenance, operation, and ensuring the safety of boating facilities in state parks and state recreation areas and to provide grants to governmental entities for the same.
The above summary is not an official publication of the Wyoming Legislature and is not an official statement of legislative intent. While the Legislative Service Office endeavored to provide accurate information in this summary, it should not be relied upon as a comprehensive abstract of the bill.
Current Bill Text
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20LSO-0453
ORIGINAL House
Bill No
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HB0195
ENROLLED ACT NO. 20,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SIXTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2020 Budget Session
AN ACT relating to gasoline taxes; authorizing expenditures of amounts attributable to motorboat gasoline tax distributions as specified; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1.
W.S. 39
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111(c)(iii) is amended to read:
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111.
Distribution.
(c)
The department shall credit to appropriate accounts based upon deductions from the taxes collected under this article in the following order:
(iii)
Deduct an amount collected on fuel used in motorboats, computed by multiplying the number of motorboats numbered during the current fiscal year under W.S. 41
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102 plus the number of nonresident motorboats for which aquatic invasive species fees have been paid during the immediately preceding fiscal year in accordance with W.S. 23
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204 times twenty
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eight dollars and seventy
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five cents ($28.75). The amount computed shall be credited to a separate account to be expended by the department of state parks and cultural resources to improve
, construct, maintain, operate and ensure the safety of
facilities for use by motorboats and motorboat users at state parks and state recreation areas and to provide grants to governmental entities for improvement
, construction, maintenance, operation and ensuring the safety
of publicly owned boating facilities at public parks and recreational facilities;
Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2020
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