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22LSO-0247
ORIGINAL House
ENGROSSED
Bill No
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HB0063
ENROLLED ACT NO. 47,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SIXTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2022 Budget Session
AN ACT relating to the administration of government; amending the salary for county attorneys and county and prosecuting attorneys; amending the salary for district attorneys; amending the state contribution to counties for the salaries of county and prosecuting attorneys; 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. 9
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802(d) and 18
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107(a)(ii)(C), by creating a new subparagraph (D) and (f) are amended to read:
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802.
Election; term; qualifications; full
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time; private practice prohibited; exception; salary; vacancies.
(d)
Until January 3, 2011, each district attorney shall receive an annual salary of ninety
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four thousand five hundred dollars ($94,500.00).
From and after January 3, 2011
until January 2, 2023
, each district attorney shall receive an annual salary of
not less than
one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00).
From and after January 2, 2023, each district attorney shall receive an annual salary not greater than the salary authorized for a circuit court judge in W.S. 5
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110 as determined by the legislature.
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107.
Annual salaries of certain officers; additional compensation prohibited; exception as to traveling and other expenses; compensation of county commissioner; appointment and salaries of deputies, clerks, stenographers and other assistants.
(a)
County officers shall be paid as follows:
(ii)
Full
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time county attorneys and full
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time county and prosecuting attorneys shall receive as annual salaries:
(C)
From and after January 1, 2009
through January 1, 2023,
and to the extent permitted under the constitution and statutory law, not less than thirty
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five thousand dollars ($35,000.00) nor more than the salary authorized for a district attorney under W.S. 9
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802(d)
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(D)
From and after January 2, 2023 and to the extent permitted under the constitution and statutory law, not less than thirty
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five thousand dollars ($35,000.00) nor more than the salary authorized for a circuit court judge under W.S. 5
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110.
(f)
Subject to legislative appropriation, the state will pay a portion of each county and prosecuting attorney and assistant county and prosecuting attorney's salary as provided in this subsection.
The state will pay
fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) or
fifty percent (50%) of the salary of the county and prosecuting attorney
, whichever is less,
per year to each qualifying county. The state will pay thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00) or fifty percent (50%) of the salary of each assistant to the county and prosecuting attorney, whichever is less, per year. Payments under this section shall be made annually on or before June 30. In any fiscal year in which the legislative appropriation is insufficient to make all payments authorized by this subsection, the state treasurer shall provide a reduced payment by multiplying the payment authorized under this subsection by a fraction, the numerator of which is equal to the remaining legislative appropriation for the program for the biennial budget period and the denominator of which is equal to the total
payments to be made under this subsection for the current fiscal year.
Section 2.
W.S. 18
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107(a)(ii)(B) is repealed.
Section 3
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This act is effective July 1, 2022
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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 House.
Chief Clerk
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