HB0225 • 2023

Senior citizen service districts.

AN ACT relating to counties; requiring that a proposition to impose mill levies for a senior citizen service district be submitted to the resident electors every four (4) years after the election authorizing the mill levy; and providing for an effective date.

Taxes

Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor: Representative Crago
Last action: 2023-02-07
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2023

Plain English Breakdown

The bill text specifies that the proposition shall not be submitted to the electors for a period of not less than one (1) year if defeated, but does not explicitly state it as a requirement. The candidate explanation's claim about limiting votes from happening sooner than one year apart after defeat is partly supported by this detail.

Senior Citizen Service Districts

The bill requires that a vote to continue funding for senior citizen service districts through mill levies be held every four years after the initial approval.

What This Bill Does

Requires counties to hold votes every four years on whether to keep funding senior citizen service districts with mill levies.

Who It Names or Affects

Counties in Wyoming that have senior citizen service districts funded by mill levies.
Residents of those counties who are eligible to vote on these propositions.

Terms To Know

Mill levy: A tax rate measured in mills, which is one-thousandth of a dollar. For example, two mills would be $2 for every $1000 of property value.
Senior citizen service district: An area designated to provide services specifically for senior citizens using funds raised through mill levies.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify what happens if the vote is held and funding is rejected.
It's unclear how many counties currently have such districts or are planning to create them.
This bill was marked as inactive, meaning it did not pass in its current session.

Bill History

2023-02-07 House
H:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 5-4
2023-02-07 House
H No report prior to CoW Cutoff
2023-01-25 House
H Introduced and Referred to H08 - Transportation
2023-01-24 House
H Received for Introduction
2023-01-24 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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23LSO-0697
2023
STATE OF WYOMING
23LSO-0697
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0225

Senior citizen service districts.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Crago and Senator(s) Barlow

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to counties; requiring that a proposition to impose mill levies for a senior citizen service district be submitted to the resident electors every four (4) years after the election authorizing the mill levy; 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. 18
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102(d) is amended to read:

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102.

Formation of district; mill levy.

(d)

If the proposition to authorize a mill levy is approved by the qualified electors of the proposed district, the proposition to impose a levy in the same or at a different amount not to exceed two (2) mills, shall be submitted to the resident electors within the proposed district at the first general election held
two (2)
four (4)
years after the election authorizing the district and every four (4) years thereafter, until defeated. If the proposition to impose or continue a mill levy is defeated, the proposition shall not be submitted to the electors for a period of not less than one (1) year.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2023
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