State employee leave for volunteer emergency services.

Plain English Breakdown

The official summary does not provide detailed information on how leave will be managed by employers.

State Employee Leave for Volunteer Emergency Services

This law allows state employees to take up to 24 hours of paid leave each year to volunteer as emergency responders with fire departments, ambulance services, or search and rescue organizations.

What This Bill Does

• Creates a new section in the Wyoming State Code allowing state officers and employees to receive up to 24 hours of paid leave per calendar year for volunteering as emergency response personnel.
• Defines eligible volunteer work as service or training with a volunteer fire department, licensed ambulance service, or county search and rescue organization.
• Requires the Department of Administration and Information to create rules that explain how this new law will be put into practice.

Who It Names or Affects

• State officers and employees who volunteer as emergency responders with fire departments, ambulance services, or search and rescue organizations.
• The Department of Administration and Information which must create rules to implement this law.

Terms To Know

rostered volunteer

A person officially listed and trained by an organization to provide emergency response services.

rulemaking

The process of creating detailed rules or regulations that explain how a law will be carried out.

Limits and Unknowns

• This act only applies to state officers and employees, not private citizens.
• It does not specify the exact details of how leave will be granted or managed by employers.
• The effectiveness date for most parts of this act is July 1, 2024.

Official Summary Text

Bill Summary - 24LSO-0020

Bill No.:

SF0003

Effective:

Multiple Dates

LSO No.:

24LSO-0020

Enrolled Act No.:

SEA No. 0004

Chapter No.:

18

Prime Sponsor:

Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Interim Committee

Catch Title:

State employee leave for volunteer emergency services.

Has Report:

No

Subject:

State employee leave.

Summary/Major Elements:

This act authorizes every state officer and employee to receive up to twenty-four (24) hours of leave with pay during each calendar year to use when the state officer or employee is absent from work due to service or training as a rostered volunteer with a volunteer fire department, licensed ambulance service or county search and rescue organization in the state of Wyoming.

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

24LSO-0020

ORIGINAL Senate

ENGROSSED
File No
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SF0003

ENROLLED ACT NO. 4,

SENATE

SIXTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2024 Budget Session

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; providing state employees leave to serve as volunteer emergency response personnel; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 9
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107 is created to read:

9
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107.

Leave for volunteer emergency response personnel.

Every state officer and employee shall receive up to twenty
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four (24) hours of leave with pay during each calendar year to use when the state officer or employee is absent from work due to service or training as a rostered volunteer with a volunteer fire department, licensed ambulance service or county search and rescue organization in the state of Wyoming.

Section 2.

The department of administration and information shall promulgate all rules necessary to implement this act.

Section 3.

(a)

Except as otherwise provided by subsection (b) of this section, this act is effective July 1, 2024.

(b)

Sections 2 and 3 of this act are effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become a 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 Senate.

Chief Clerk

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