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20LSO-0509
ORIGINAL Senate
File No
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SF0069
ENROLLED ACT NO. 29,
SENATE
SIXTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2020 Budget Session
AN ACT relating to rural health care districts; clarifying the authority of districts to own and operate a nursing home as specified; making conforming amendments; 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. 35
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703(a)(xi), 35
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710(a), 35
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712 and 35
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721 are amended to read:
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703.
Body corporate; name and style; powers generally; rules and regulations of trustees.
(a)
Each district so established is a body corporate and shall be designated by the name of the .... rural health care district. The district name shall be entered upon the commissioners' records and shall be selected by the board of county commissioners of the county in which the greater area of land within the district is located. In the name so selected, the district through its governing board may:
(xi)
Construct, purchase or own a hospital
, nursing home
and related facilities.
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710.
Securities for acquiring and improving hospitals, nursing homes and related facilities; issuance authorized; lines of credit and tax and revenue anticipation notes.
(a)
The trustees of a rural health care district established pursuant to W.S. 35
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701, are authorized to issue revenue bonds, notes and warrants or other revenue securities for the purpose of acquiring, erecting,
constructing, reconstructing, improving, remodeling, furnishing and equipping hospitals
, nursing homes
and related facilities and acquiring a site or sites as the trustees may determine.
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712.
Securities for acquiring hospitals, nursing homes and related facilities; not a general obligation of rural health care district or trustees; payable from special fund.
The securities issued pursuant to W.S. 35
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711 through 35
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722 shall not constitute a general obligation of the rural health care district, nor of the trustees, but shall be payable solely from a special fund to contain the net revenue to be derived from the operation of the hospitals
, nursing homes
and related facilities, the revenues being defined as those remaining after paying the costs of operating and maintaining the facilities.
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721.
Charges and rentals.
The trustees shall establish and collect charges for services and rentals for use of facilities furnished, acquired, constructed or purchased from the proceeds of the securities sufficient to pay the principal or the interest, or both, on the securities as they become due and payable, together with the additional sums as may be deemed necessary for accumulating reserves and providing for obsolescence and depreciation and to pay the expenses of operating and maintaining the facilities. The trustees shall establish all other charges, fees and rates to be derived from the operation of the hospital
, nursing home
or any other facility of the rural health care district.
Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2020
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(END)
Speaker of the House
President of the Senate
Governor
TIME APPROVED: _________
DATE APPROVED: _________
I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.
Chief Clerk
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