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22LSO-0204
2022
STATE OF WYOMING
22LSO-0204
Numbered
2.0
HOUSE BILL NO. HB0130
Attracting and retaining Wyoming's best.
Sponsored by: Representative(s) Henderson, Olsen and Yin
A BILL
for
AN ACT relating to public employees; providing for ongoing salary adjustments for public employees; directing consideration of salary adjustments in developing recommendations for external cost adjustments for school districts; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1.
W.S. 9
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107 is created to read:
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107.
Public employee salary adjustments.
(a)
To reduce personnel costs associated with recruitment, hiring and training and to allow the state's public employers to attract and retain the quality and quantity of employees needed to fulfill service commitments to its citizens, the state shall provide for salary adjustments for public employees as provided under this section.
(b)
Subject to the availability of funding, all public employees shall receive a biennial salary adjustment under this section corresponding to the Wyoming cost
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of
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living index averaged over the previous three (3) years for the portion of each employee's salary that is less than or equal to eighty thousand dollars ($80,000.00). In no event shall the salary adjustment under this section be less than zero percent (0%) or greater than three percent (3%) in any biennium for each public employee. Salary adjustments provided under this section shall be effective July 1, 2024 and July 1 in each even numbered year thereafter.
(c)
The average Wyoming cost
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of
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living index shall be calculated by the economic analysis division within the department of administration and information and measured from the first quarter to the fourth quarter of every calendar year for each of the previous three (3) years.
(d)
The amounts necessary to provide salary adjustments under this section shall be computed as follows for:
(i)
Executive branch public employees and public employees of the University of Wyoming and community colleges, by the state budget department, after consultation with the university and community college commission and these amounts shall be included in each agency's standard budget request submitted pursuant to W.S. 9
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1010 through 9
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1014.3;
(ii)
Judicial branch public employees, by the supreme court and the district courts and these amounts shall be included in the standard budget requests submitted pursuant to W.S. 5
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113 and 5
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123;
(iii)
Legislative branch public employees, by the legislative service office and these amounts shall be submitted to the management council.
(e)
The salary adjustments required under this section shall be appropriated from the general fund for all generally funded public employees, to the extent funds are available.
The salary adjustments required under this section for public employees whose salary is paid from fund sources other than the general fund shall be appropriated from the applicable fund source, to the extent funds are available.
(f)
As used in this section, "public employee" means any employee of the state of Wyoming working full
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time, including on a contract basis, for the state of Wyoming including the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, and any department, division, agency, board, commission or other instrumentality of those branches, the University of Wyoming and the Wyoming community colleges.
"Public employee" shall not include any elected official whose salary is prescribed by law.
Section 2
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W.S. 9
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3207(c)(ii) and 21
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309(o) are amended to read:
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3207.
Duties of department performed through human resources division.
(c)
The state compensation plan shall provide for the following procedures to establish and change individual pay rates:
(ii)
General pay increases shall be only those approved by the legislature
and salary adjustments required by W.S. 9
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309.
Determination of amount to be included in foundation program for each district.
(o)
To the extent specifically provided by the legislature, and between periods of model recalibration
required under subsection (t) of this section, the amount computed for each district under subsection (m) of this section shall be adjusted to provide for the effects of inflation, excluding those amounts specified under subparagraphs (m)(v)(E) and (F) of this section and the assessment component contained in paragraph (b)(xxviii) of "Attachment A" as referenced in W.S. 21
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101(a)(xvii). The adjustment under this subsection shall not be applied until the expiration of the school year immediately following the first school year of application of the recalibrated model, and shall be adjusted on a cumulative basis each school year thereafter and until the first school year of application of a subsequent model recalibration.
Following analysis of information reported under subsection (u) of this section, the joint appropriations
interim
committee shall submit a recommendation to the legislature and the governor not later than November 1 of each applicable year on an external cost adjustment for purposes of this subsection.
In developing a recommendation under this subsection, the joint appropriations committee shall consider information provided by the department of
administration and information and the executive branch agency heads on salary adjustments provided to other public employees under W.S. 9
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Section 3.
This act is effective July 1, 2022
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