Plain English: The amendment adds new powers to cities and towns, allowing them to set rules and charges for using water and diverting surface water runoff.
Adds the authority for cities and towns to prescribe and regulate rates for the use of water.
Gives cities and towns the power to regulate the diversion of surface water runoff.
Plain English: The amendment adds 'management' as a new authority for cities and towns alongside their existing authority over surface water diversion.
Adds the word 'management' to give cities and towns additional power related to surface water, in addition to their current ability to handle water diversion.
The exact scope of what this new management authority entails is not specified in the amendment text.
Plain English: The amendment changes a part of the bill to give cities and towns more power to redirect surface water runoff within their areas, but only if the landowner agrees.
Removes existing language about diverting surface water and replaces it with new rules that allow local governments to take actions to divert surface water runoff from residents' properties.
Requires that any action taken by cities or towns must have the consent of the property owner.
The amendment does not specify what kind of actions cities and towns can take, only that they are 'necessary to divert surface water runoff'.
Bill History
2020-03-12LSO
Assigned Chapter Number 58
2020-03-12Governor
Governor Signed SEA No. 0031
2020-03-09House
H Speaker Signed SEA No. 0031
2020-03-06Senate
S President Signed SEA No. 0031
2020-03-06LSO
Assigned Number SEA No. 0031
2020-03-06House
H 3rd Reading:Passed 38-20-2-0-0
2020-03-05House
H 2nd Reading:Passed
2020-03-04House
H COW:Passed
2020-03-02House
H Placed on General File
2020-03-02House
H03 - Revenue:Recommend Do Pass 8-0-1-0-0
2020-02-24House
H Introduced and Referred to H03 - Revenue
2020-02-20House
H Received for Introduction
2020-02-19Senate
S 3rd Reading:Passed 28-2-0-0-0
2020-02-18Senate
S 2nd Reading:Passed
2020-02-17Senate
S COW:Passed
2020-02-13Senate
S Placed on General File
2020-02-13Senate
S07 - Corporations:Recommend Do Pass 4-1-0-0-0
2020-02-10Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S07 - Corporations 29-0-1-0-0
2020-02-07Senate
S Received for Introduction
2019-12-17LSO
Bill Number Assigned
Official Summary Text
Bill Summary - 20LSO-0028
Bill No.:
SF0022
Effective:
7/1/2020 12:00:00 AM
LSO No.:
20LSO-0028
Enrolled Act No.:
SEA No. 0031
Chapter No.:
58
Prime Sponsor:
Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee
Catch Title:
Surface water diversion.
Subject:
Diversion of surface water runoff.
Summary/Major Elements:
Existing law authorizes cities and towns to take any action necessary to establish, purchase, extend, maintain and regulate a water system for supplying water to its inhabitants.
The bill expands that authority to include diverting surface water runoff from the property of its inhabitants and to prescribe and regulate rates for the diversion or management of surface water runoff.
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-0028
ORIGINAL Senate
File No
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SF0022
ENROLLED ACT NO. 31,
SENATE
SIXTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2020 Budget Session
AN ACT relating to cities and towns; specifying the authority of cities and towns over surface water diversion; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1
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W.S. 15
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7
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101(a)(iii)(intro) and (B) is amended to read:
15
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7
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101.
Purposes.
(a)
In addition to all other powers provided by law, any city or town may make public improvements as follows for which bonds may be issued to the contractor or be sold as provided in this chapter to:
(iii)
Take any action necessary to establish, purchase, extend, maintain and regulate a water system for supplying water to
and diverting surface water runoff from
its inhabitants
and their property
and for any other public purposes, including:
(B)
Prescribing and regulating of rates for the use of water
and diversion or management of surface water runoff
; and
Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2020
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(END)
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