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23LSO-0337
2023
STATE OF WYOMING
23LSO-0337
ENGROSSED
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SENATE FILE NO. SF0141
Transportation technology transfer center program funding.
Sponsored by: Senator(s) Pappas and Landen
A BILL
for
AN ACT relating to county roads; increasing the county budgeted amount and state matching contribution to the University of Wyoming's transportation technology transfer center program; allocating amounts for gravel county roads; conforming and correcting county and city funding provisions; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1.
W.S. 21
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17
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115(a)(intro), (iii) and (b), 24
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2
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110(c)(intro) and 39
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17
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111(d)(ii) are amended to read:
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17
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115.
University technology transfer center program.
(a)
The University of Wyoming may operate a technology transfer center and provide training to Wyoming county and municipality employees regarding current trends in transportation technology. The funding of the program shall be administered by the Wyoming department of transportation. The cost of the program shall be provided by
an annual state matching contribution by legislative appropriation from the general fund of not less than three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00) to the Wyoming department of transportation for purposes of the program and by
each of the following contributing
annually
a minimum of twenty
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five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) each regardless of any contribution from the federal government or other nonstate sources, or up to a maximum of thirty
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one thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($31,250.00) each provided the federal government or other nonstate sources contribute an amount equal to the total monies provided by the following as specified:
(iii)
Cities and towns as provided in W.S. 39
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17
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111(d)(iii)(A)
and 39
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17
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311(a)(iv)(C)(I)
;
(b)
The university shall annually certify the cost of the state's share of the program to the transportation
commission
department,
which shall transfer
the state matching contribution under subsection (a) of this section,
the amounts specified in
paragraphs (a)(i) through (a)(iii) of this section,
W.S. 24
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2
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110(c)(i)
,
and
39
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17
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111(d)
(ii) and
(iii)(A)
and 39
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17
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311(a)(iv)(B) and (C)(I)
to the university to be used for funding the program.
Not less than one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000.00) of the county contribution under W.S. 39
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111(d)(ii) and not more than three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00) of the state matching funds under subsection (a) of this section shall be designated for the University of Wyoming technology transfer program's county gravel road inventory program. No funds designated for the technology transfer center program under this section shall be used for administrative purposes.
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2
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110.
Cooperation with counties in construction and maintenance of county roads; allocation of costs.
(c)
The gasoline
and alternative fuel
license tax revenues distributed by the department of transportation under W.S. 39
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17
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111(d)(ii)
and 39
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17
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311(a)(iv)(B)
shall be sent to the county treasurers of the various counties and placed in a separate fund in each county earning its own interest and be expended by the board of county commissioners solely for the road construction and maintenance fund program and as otherwise provided in this subsection. This money shall be allocated as follows:
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111.
Distribution.
(d)
After crediting the amounts provided by subsection (c) of this section, the department shall deposit the balance of taxes collected under this article into the accounts within the state highway fund created under this subsection, with receipt and acknowledgement submitted to the state treasurer, as follows:
(ii)
Fourteen percent (14%) shall be credited to the county treasurers of the various counties for their road construction funds, except that an amount equal to the contribution required of the counties for the cost of the university's technology transfer program under W.S.
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115(a)(ii) or thirty
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one thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($31,250.00), whichever is less shall be first distributed to the highway fund, plus an amount not to exceed
one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000.00)
three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00),
per year shall first be distributed to the highway fund for the University of Wyoming technology transfer program's county road inventory program. Each county treasurer shall credit the revenues to the road construction fund in that county. The department shall allocate to each county a share based fifty percent (50%) upon the ratio which the rural population of each county including the population within the cities and towns with less than one thousand four hundred (1,400) bears to the total rural population of the state and fifty percent (50%) based on the ratio which the area of the county bears to the total area of the state. Any interest earned on invested funds allocated to counties shall be retained by each county and shall be used for project costs as provided by W.S. 24
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110(a);
Section 2.
There is appropriated three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00) from the general fund to the department of transportation for purposes of a state matching contribution to the University of Wyoming technology transfer center program under W.S. 21-17-115.
This appropriation shall be for the period beginning with the effective date of this act and ending June 30, 2024.
This appropriation shall not be transferred or expended for any other purpose and any unexpended, unobligated funds remaining from this appropriation shall revert as provided by law on June 30, 2024.
It is the intent of the legislature that this appropriation in the amount certified by the University of Wyoming under W.S. 21-17-115(b) be included in the department of transportation's standard budget for the immediately succeeding fiscal biennium.
Section 3
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This act is effective July 1, 2023
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