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24LSO-0296
2024
STATE OF WYOMING
24LSO-0296
Numbered
2.0
SENATE FILE NO. SF0028
Federal natural resource management coordinator.
Sponsored by: Select Federal Natural Resource Management Committee
A BILL
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AN ACT relating to administration of the government; authorizing a position within the governor's office; specifying duties for the newly authorized position; repealing the existing coordinator of state-federal relations position; providing an appropriation; 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. 9
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225 is created to read:
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225.
Federal natural resource management coordinator; duties.
(a)
The governor shall employ a federal natural resource management coordinator with the annual advice and consent of the senate, in accordance with W.S. 28
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101 through 28
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103. The coordinator shall serve a term of four (4) years and shall serve at the pleasure of the governor. If a vacancy occurs, the governor shall appoint a successor in accordance with W.S. 28
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101(b).
(b)
The coordinator shall:
(i)
Review all federal legislative and administrative acts for impacts to Wyoming's federal natural resource interests;
(ii)
Coordinate with the office of state lands and investments and the board of land commissioners to explore land exchanges between the state and federal government;
(iii)
Coordinate with all state departments, boards, commissions and agencies, the legislature and local governments to protect the state from federal government overreach into state and local federal natural resource interests;
(iv)
Administer an incentive program that shall incentivize employees of the state who protect the state's federal natural resource interests from federal overreach. The incentive program may include bonuses or promotions for participating state employees with the approval of the governor in consultation with the affected agency director;
(v)
Recruit and, if funding is available, offer signing bonuses to state employees who are hired directly from federal land management agencies;
(vi)
Carry out all duties the governor assigns pertaining to protecting Wyoming's federal natural resource interests against federal government overreach.
Section 2.
W.S. 9
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209 is repealed.
Section 3
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(a)
The office of the governor is authorized one (1) full
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time position to fill the federal natural resource management coordinator position required by this act.
(b)
There is appropriated ten million dollars ($10,000,000.00) from the general fund to the office of the governor for purposes of funding the position authorized by subsection (a) of this section and for implementing this act for the period beginning July 1, 2024 and ending June 30, 2026. This appropriation shall not be transferred or expended for any other purpose and any unexpended, unobligated funds remaining from this appropriation on June 30, 2026 shall revert as provided by law.
(c)
It is the intent of the legislature that the position authorized in subsection (a) of this section and the appropriation for that position be included in the standard budget for the office of the governor for the immediately succeeding fiscal biennium.
Section 4.
On or after July 1, 2024 the governor shall employ a federal natural resource management coordinator in accordance with W.S. 28
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103. The federal natural resource management coordinator's first term shall commence after senate confirmation during the 2025 general legislative session.
Section 5
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This act is effective July 1, 2024
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