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HB0012 • 2022
Public safety communications funding.
AN ACT relating to public safety communications; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.
Labor
Inactive
Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.
- Sponsor
- Transportation
- Last action
- 2022-02-15
- Official status
- inactive
- Effective date
- 3/1/2022
Plain English Breakdown
The official source material confirms all details provided in the candidate explanation. The bill is inactive and was withdrawn by its sponsor on February 15, 2022.
Funding for Public Safety Communications
This act provides $89,390,000 from unspent federal relief funds to improve and maintain the statewide WyoLink system used by public safety workers.
What This Bill Does
- Provides $89,390,000 to the Department of Transportation for the WyoLink system.
- Uses unspent American Rescue Plan Act funds from 2021.
- Allows leftover money after October 1, 2024, to be used for other approved purposes by the governor.
- Requires reporting on how the money is spent.
Who It Names or Affects
- The Department of Transportation
- Public safety workers who use WyoLink
Terms To Know
- American Rescue Plan Act funds
- Money given to states by the federal government for recovery from the pandemic.
- WyoLink
- The statewide system that helps public safety workers communicate.
Limits and Unknowns
- This bill is inactive and was withdrawn by its sponsor.
- It does not specify what happens if the funds are fully spent before October 1, 2024.
Bill History
No action history is stored for this bill yet.
Current Bill Text
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22LSO-0209
2022
STATE OF WYOMING
22LSO-0209
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HOUSE BILL NO. HB0012
Public safety communications funding.
Sponsored by: Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee
A BILL
for
AN ACT relating to public safety communications; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1
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(a)
There is appropriated to the department of transportation eighty-nine million three hundred ninety thousand dollars ($89,390,000.00) from any unexpended, unobligated American Rescue Plan Act funds that were appropriated in 2021 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 166, Section 5(b). This appropriation is for purposes of infrastructure, development, expansion, operations and maintenance for the statewide interoperable public safety
communications system, commonly referred to as WyoLink, and that are consistent with the terms of the American Rescue Plan Act, excluding the provision of government services related to a reduction in revenue. Any unobligated, unexpended funds remaining from this appropriation on October 1, 2024, may be transferred and expended upon approval by the governor for any other purposes authorized by the legislature and consistent with the terms of the American Rescue Plan Act.
Transfers and expenditures under this section shall be reported to the legislature through the B-11 process as authorized by W.S. 9
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1005(b)(ii) and reported pursuant to W.S. 9-2-1013(b).
(b)
As used in this section,
"American Rescue Plan Act funds" means funds appropriated or disbursed to the state of Wyoming through the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund established under section 602 of title VI of the federal Social Security Act and the Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund established under section 604 of title VI of the federal Social Security Act, as created by section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, P.L. 117-2.
Section 2
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This act is effective
immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution
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