HB0034 • 2025

Department of transportation-efficiency study.

AN ACT relating to administration of government; requiring an efficiency study by an independent third party to evaluate the department of transportation; requiring reporting and recommendations; providing an appropriation; specifying contingencies; and providing for effective dates.

Budget Labor

Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor: Transportation
Last action: 2025-03-03
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on the implementation and funding of recommendations from the study after July 1, 2026.

Efficiency Study for the Department of Transportation

This act requires an independent third party to conduct a study on the efficiency of Wyoming's Department of Transportation, including rules, policies, staffing, resources, design and construction practices, and technologies used by the department. The study must provide recommendations and a final report by July 1, 2026.

What This Bill Does

Requires an independent third party to perform an efficiency study of the Department of Transportation.
Specifies that the study should evaluate rules, policies, staffing, resources, design and construction practices, and technologies used by the department.
Includes a requirement for an anonymous survey of all employees to identify areas for increasing efficiencies within the department.
Requires the independent third party to provide recommendations on how to achieve identified efficiencies and cost savings.
Recommends that the final report be submitted to the governor, the Department of Transportation, and the Joint Transportation, Highways and Military Affairs Interim Committee by July 1, 2026.

Who It Names or Affects

The Wyoming Department of Transportation
Employees of the Wyoming Department of Transportation
An independent third party conducting the study

Terms To Know

Efficiency Study: A review conducted by an outside expert to find ways for a government department to work better and save money.
Contingencies: Conditions that must be met before the act can take effect, such as other bills being passed into law.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill will only become effective if two other specific bills (HB0029 and HB0033) are also enacted.
It is unclear how the recommendations from the study will be implemented or funded beyond this act's provisions.

Amendments

These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.

HB0034HS001

Standing Committee • House Transportation, Highways and Military Affair

Filed

Plain English: The amendment adds a condition that the efficiency study of the Department of Transportation will only take effect if another bill (House Bill 0033) becomes law in 2025.

Adds a new clause stating that this act is contingent upon House Bill 0033 being enacted into law by 2025.

The amendment does not provide details about what House Bill 0033 contains or how it relates to the efficiency study of the Department of Transportation.

Bill History

2025-03-03 House
H:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 5-4
2025-02-10 House
H No report prior to CoW Cutoff
2025-01-29 House
H02 - Appropriations:Do Pass Failed 2-5-0-0-0
2025-01-28 House
:Rerefer to H02 - Appropriations
2025-01-28 House
H08 - Transportation:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 7-2-0-0-0
2025-01-15 House
H Introduced and Referred to H08 - Transportation
2025-01-02 House
H Received for Introduction
2024-12-12 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

25LSO-0294
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0294
Introduced
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0034

Department of transportation-efficiency study.

Sponsored by: Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to administration of government; requiring an efficiency study by an independent third party to evaluate the department of transportation; requiring reporting and recommendations; providing an appropriation; specifying contingencies; and providing for effective dates.

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

Section 1
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(a)

There is appropriated seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000.00) from funds deposited in the highway fund under W.S. 39
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111(d)(iv) to the governor's office for purposes of conducting an efficiency study of the department of transportation in accordance with this section. Funds appropriated under this section shall not be distributed to the governor's office before April 1, 2025 and only if this bill becomes effective under section 2 of this act. The study funded by this appropriation shall:

(i)

Be conducted by an independent third party;

(ii)

Be conducted in consultation with the joint transportation, highways and military affairs interim committee;

(iii)

Evaluate the department of transportation's rules, policies and procedures;

(iv)

Review the department of transportation's staffing and resources and the distribution and number of staff and resources around the state of Wyoming;

(v)

Review the department of transportation's design and construction practices and technologies, including the department's standard specifications for engineering;

(vi)

Conduct an anonymous survey of all employees of the department of transportation asking for employees to identify areas for increasing efficiencies within the department;

(vii)

Determine whether efficiencies or cost savings can be gained;

(viii)

Provide recommendations for the department of transportation to achieve the efficiencies identified in paragraphs (vi) and (vii) of this subsection;

(ix)

Include a final report, containing the potential efficiencies identified, recommendations to achieve those efficiencies and any recommendations for changes to statute, rule, policy or procedure to the governor, the department of transportation and the joint transportation, highways and military affairs interim committee not later than July 1, 2026.

Section 2.

(a)

Subject to subsection (b) of this section, this act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

(b)

This act shall only be effective if:

(i)

2025 House Bill 0029 is enacted into law; and

(ii)

2025 House Bill 0033 is enacted into law.

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