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24LSO-0366
2024
STATE OF WYOMING
24LSO-0366
Numbered
2.0
SENATE FILE NO. SF0106
Wyoming state guard-amendments.
Sponsored by: Senator(s) Laursen, D, Boner, Bouchard, Driskill, French, Hutchings, Ide, Kolb, McKeown and Salazar and Representative(s) Allemand, Bear, Hornok, Knapp, Locke, Pendergraft, Rodriguez-Williams, Slagle, Styvar, Ward and Winter
A BILL
for
AN ACT relating to the Wyoming state guard; removing federal involvement in the Wyoming state guard; allowing the governor to organize and maintain the Wyoming state guard; specifying the source of payment for service in the state guard; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1.
W.S. 19
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101(a) and (b), 19
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102 and 19
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103 are amended to read:
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101.
Organization by governor; appointment of council; removal; control.
(a)
If the national guard of Wyoming is ordered into the service of the United States,
T
he governor may organize and maintain within this state
during that period, under such regulations as the secretary of defense may prescribe,
such military forces
as may be authorized by the secretary of defense or
as the governor deems necessary
for the defense
to preserve the public peace, to execute the laws
of the state
, to suppress insurrection or repel invasion
. The forces shall be known as the Wyoming state guard. Insofar as practicable, the existing laws, rules and regulations governing the national guard shall be
applied to
used as a model for
the control of the Wyoming state guard.
The force shall be of such strength as directed by the secretary of defense, with such expansion in the future as may be authorized.
The Wyoming state guard
shall be of such strength and
shall be armed, trained and equipped in such manner as may be prescribed by
the secretary of defense or
the governor of Wyoming.
(b)
For the purpose of coordinating desirable
national
state
defense activities, the governor shall appoint a Wyoming state council of defense. The council, subject to the approval of the governor, may organize necessary subordinate branches and establish rules and regulations for the operation of the council and subordinate branches, and assist in all matters pertaining to the Wyoming state guard and other state or national
defense activities not otherwise covered by law. Appointment to the council of defense is not limited by any requirements as to prior military or naval service. The governor may remove any member as provided in W.S. 9
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202.
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102.
Pay and allowances.
Members of the Wyoming state guard, when serving under orders of the governor of Wyoming, shall receive
out of
by legislative appropriation from
the general fund of Wyoming not otherwise appropriated
or by the governor from the continuous appropriation for public welfare emergencies under W.S. 9
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1014.3
the same pay and allowances authorized for personnel of equal rank in the national guard.
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103.
Requisition of arms and supplies.
The governor may requisition or purchase
from the department of defense or other sources
such arms, equipment and supplies as are necessary to equip the Wyoming state guard and may make available to such forces the facilities and equipment of state armories and other state premises and property as are available and necessary.
Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2024
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