AN ACT relating to local government funding; increasing a prior appropriation; making conforming changes to the related formulas; and providing for an effective date.
Budget
Enacted
This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.
Sponsor
Appropriations
Last action
2023-03-09
Official status
enrolled
Effective date
3/9/2023
Plain English Breakdown
The official source material does not provide specific details about the updates to the distribution formula or criteria for calculating distributions.
Local Government Funding Increase
This law increases funding for local governments and changes how these funds are distributed over a two-year period.
What This Bill Does
Increases the amount of money given to cities, towns, and counties from $105 million over two years to $131.25 million over two years.
Changes when and how much money is available for distribution each year: $52.5 million in the first year and $78.75 million in the second year.
Who It Names or Affects
Cities
Towns
Counties
Terms To Know
Biennium
A two-year period used for budget planning and funding cycles in some states.
Distribution formula
A set of rules that determines how funds are divided among different areas or groups based on specific criteria.
Limits and Unknowns
The law does not specify exactly how local governments must use the additional funding.
It is unclear if there will be future adjustments to these distribution amounts beyond this biennium.
Amendments
These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.
Plain English: The amendment changes the amount of funding for local government distributions from $118 million to $131.25 million and adjusts related figures accordingly.
Increases the total appropriation from one hundred eighteen million dollars to one hundred thirty-one million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($131,250,000).
Changes a sub-appropriation amount from sixty-five million six hundred thousand dollars to seventy-eight million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($78,750,000).
The amendment does not specify how the additional funds will be distributed or used.
Plain English: The amendment changes the distribution of funds to local governments, altering how and when cities, towns, and counties receive money from the state.
Deletes sections related to funding distributions and replaces them with new rules for allocating $26.25 million in equal amounts twice a year to eligible municipalities based on population size categories.
Specifies that 34% of the total amount will be allocated equally among counties, while smaller population ranges receive progressively larger percentages of the funds.
The amendment text does not provide details about how the remaining sections (after the inserted content) are affected or what happens to deleted parts beyond the new allocations.
It is unclear from this excerpt alone how previous conforming changes mentioned in the bill title would be impacted by these deletions and insertions.
Bill History
2023-03-09LSO
Assigned Chapter Number 155
2023-03-09Governor
Governor Signed HEA No. 0078
2023-03-01Senate
S President Signed HEA No. 0078
2023-02-28House
H Speaker Signed HEA No. 0078
2023-02-28LSO
Assigned Number HEA No. 0078
2023-02-28Senate
S 3rd Reading:Passed 18-13-0-0-0
2023-02-24Senate
S 3rd Reading:Laid Back
2023-02-23Senate
S 2nd Reading:Passed
2023-02-22Senate
S COW:Passed
2023-02-07Senate
S Placed on General File
2023-02-07Senate
S02 - Appropriations:Recommend Do Pass 4-0-1-0-0
2023-02-03Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S02 - Appropriations
2023-02-02Senate
S Received for Introduction
2023-02-02House
H 3rd Reading:Passed 43-19-0-0-0
2023-02-01House
H 2nd Reading:Passed
2023-01-31House
H COW:Passed
2023-01-25House
H Placed on General File
2023-01-25House
H02 - Appropriations:Recommend Do Pass 7-0-0-0-0
2023-01-20House
H Introduced and Referred to H02 - Appropriations
2023-01-18House
H Received for Introduction
2023-01-17LSO
Bill Number Assigned
Official Summary Text
Bill Summary - 23LSO-0405
Bill No.:
HB0185
Effective:
Immediately
LSO No.:
23LSO-0405
Enrolled Act No.:
HEA No. 0078
Chapter No.:
155
Prime Sponsor:
Joint Appropriations Committee
Catch Title:
Local government distributions-revisions.
Subject:
Local government distributions.
Summary/Major Elements:
In the 2022 budget session, the Legislature made an appropriation for purposes of distributing funds to cities, towns and counties under the local government distribution formula. The local government distribution formula calculates an amount for each city, town and county based on various factors including population, assessed valuation and per capita sales and use tax collection. The appropriation was in the amount of one hundred five million dollars ($105,000,000.00) over a two (2) year period or fifty-two million five hundred thousand dollars ($52,500,000.00) per year of the biennium.
This act increases the amount of the appropriation to one hundred thirty-one million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($131,250,000.00), so that seventy-eight million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($78,750,000.00) will be available for distribution under the local government distribution formula in the second year of the biennium.
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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23LSO-0405
ORIGINAL House
Bill No
.
HB0185
ENROLLED ACT NO. 78,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SIXTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2023 General Session
AN ACT relating to local government funding; increasing a prior appropriation; making conforming changes to the related formulas; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1
.
2022 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 91, Section 1(a)(intro), (b)(intro) and (c)(intro) is amended to read:
Section 1.
(a)
From the general fund there is appropriated
one hundred five million dollars ($105,000,000.00)
one hundred thirty-one million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($131,250,000.00)
to the office of state lands and investments
to
as provided in this subsection. Fifty-two million five hundred thousand dollars ($52,500,000.00) shall be available in the first fiscal year of the biennium and seventy-eight million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($78,750,000.00) shall be available in the second fiscal year of the biennium. The appropriation shall
be allocated pursuant to the following and as further provided in this section:
[CITY AND TOWN DIRECT DISTRIBUTION ALLOCATIONS]
(b)
Funds appropriated in paragraphs (a)(i) and (iii) of this section shall be distributed to cities and towns
with one-half (1/2) of
based on
the amount
available distributed in the first
appropriated for each
fiscal year of the biennium
and one-half (1/2) of the amount available distributed in the second fiscal year of the biennium
under subsection (a) of this section
. Distributions in each fiscal year shall be made in equal amounts on August 15 and January 15 of each fiscal year as calculated prior to the August 15 distribution, subject to the following:
[COUNTY DIRECT DISTRIBUTION ALLOCATIONS]
(c)
Funds appropriated in paragraphs (a)(ii) and (iv) of this section are to be distributed to counties
with one-half (1/2) of
based on
the amount
available distributed in the first
appropriated for each
fiscal year of the biennium
and one-half (1/2) of the amount available distributed in the second fiscal year of the biennium
under subsection (a) of this section
. Distributions in each fiscal year shall be made in equal amounts on August 15 and January 15 of each fiscal year as calculated prior to the August 15 distribution. From these distributions each county shall receive the following:
Section 2
.
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.
(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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