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ORIGINAL Senate
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SF0048
ENROLLED ACT NO. 14,
SENATE
SIXTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2024 Budget Session
AN ACT relating to compensation and benefits; increasing employee contributions under the Wyoming State Highway Patrol, Game and Fish Warden and Criminal Investigator Retirement Act; striking archaic provisions; providing appropriations; 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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604(a) and (c)(ii) is amended to read:
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604.
Employee contributions.
(a)
Except as otherwise provided in this section,
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very employee covered by this article shall pay into the fund
thirteen and fifty
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four hundredths percent (13.54%) of his salary from September 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014, and thereafter
fourteen and fifty
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six hundredths percent (14.56%) of his salary
. For the period from September 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014 forty
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five hundredths percent (.45%), for the period
from July 1, 2014 through
June 30, 2016 ninety
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six hundredths percent (.96%) and for the period from July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017, fifty
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one hundredths percent (.51%) salary contribution required by this subsection shall be paid by the employer on behalf of the member. To the extent the remaining amount is not paid by an employer on behalf of the member, this payment shall be deducted each pay period from employees' salaries by the respective chief fiscal officers of the employers
June 30, 2024 and thereafter eighteen and ninety
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two hundredths percent (18.92%) of his salary
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(c)
The contributions under subsection (b) of this section shall be paid from the source of funds which is used in paying salary to the employee. The employer may pay these contributions by a reduction in cash salary of the employee or by an offset against a future salary increase, or by a combination of a reduction in salary and an offset against a future salary increase, provided:
(ii)
Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, any employer may pay any amount of an employee's share of retirement contributions without a salary reduction or offset, or combination thereof. For the period from July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2014, at least one and sixty
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two hundredths percent (1.62%), for the period from July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2016 at least one and ninety
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six hundredths percent (1.96%), for the period from July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017 at least two and thirty hundredths percent (2.30%)
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and thereafter
for the period from July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2024
at least two and sixty
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four hundredths
percent
(2.64%)
and thereafter at least three and three hundredths percent (3.03%)
of the employee's share of retirement contributions shall be paid through a reduction in cash salary of the employee unless specified otherwise by legislative act.
Section 2
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(a)
There is appropriated to the office of attorney general from the general fund two hundred sixty
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two thousand dollars ($262,000.00) to provide payment of the increase in retirement contributions for employees for the 2025
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2026 fiscal biennium.
(b)
For state agency employers whose retirement contributions are made from non
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general fund sources, there is appropriated from those accounts and funds up to the amounts necessary to provide payment of the increase in the employer's share of the employee contributions as authorized by W.S. 9
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604, as amended by section 1 of this act.
(c)
The appropriations in this section shall only be expended to provide payment of any increase in the employer's share of the employee contributions as authorized by W.S. 9
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604, as amended by section 1 of this act, for the 2025
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2026 fiscal biennium.
(d)
No amount of the appropriations made in this section shall be used to provide any other increased employee contribution required by this act.
(e)
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the appropriations under this section shall not be transferred or expended for any purpose other than as specified in this section. Any unexpended, unobligated funds remaining from the appropriations made in this section shall revert as provided by law on June 30, 2026.
(f)
The state auditor shall transfer the funds to the state retirement system or to individual state agencies as determined by the department of administration and information to be necessary to meet the provisions of this act.
(g)
It is the intent of the legislature that the appropriations made in this section be included in each state agency's standard budget request for the immediately succeeding fiscal biennium.
Section 3
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This act is effective July 1, 2024
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(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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