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25LSO-0355
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0355
Numbered
2.0
HOUSE BILL NO. HB0306
State employees-authorizing semimonthly pay periods.
Sponsored by: Representative(s) Singh
A BILL
for
AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; authorizing state employees to choose whether to be paid semimonthly as specified; making conforming amendments; specifying duties of the state auditor; specifying applicability; 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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402(c), 9
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101(d), 9
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210(a) and (b), 9
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211(a), 9
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413 and 9
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413.1(b)(intro) are amended to read:
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402.
State auditor; duties generally.
(c)
The state auditor shall be the state payroll officer, shall maintain the official payroll for all state agencies, excluding the University of Wyoming, and shall supervise the issuance of all payroll warrants. The state auditor may enter into agreement with any state agency to maintain the official payroll and supervise issuance of all payroll warrants for the state agency.
The state auditor may establish the frequency in which state and employee insurance remittances and contributions and retirement contributions are made to account for the semimonthly pay periods authorized in W.S. 9
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101(d).
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101.
Salaries; amount; date of payment.
(d)
Except for
employees paid hourly, or by hard copy payroll check, as determined by the state auditor's office, overtime and shift differential pay and
employees and officers of the University of Wyoming, state employees and officers on automatic payroll direct deposit shall be paid on the last working day of the month
or semimonthly
for wages earned during that month
or during the immediately preceding semimonthly pay period
. Hourly pay shall be paid to state employees on automatic payroll direct deposit on the last working day of the month
or semimonthly
for wages earned
from
during
the
sixteenth day of the
immediately
preceding
month through the fifteenth day of the current month
monthly or semimonthly pay period
. Overtime and shift differential pay shall be paid to state employees on automatic payroll direct deposit no later than the last working day of the month
or the payment date immediately
following the
month
semimonthly pay period
in which overtime and shift differential pay was earned.
Employees and officers paid by hard copy payroll check shall have
their
each
payroll check mailed and post marked not later than the
last working day of the month
payment date specified in this subsection
.
State employees may elect to be paid semimonthly on the sixteenth day of each month, or the working day immediately preceding the sixteenth day of the month, and on the last working day of each month, by providing notice to the state auditor in a form and manner determined by the state auditor. The state auditor shall promulgate rules to provide for state employees to elect to be paid semimonthly. Rules promulgated under this subsection shall include limitations on how and when state employees may change from monthly pay to semimonthly pay or semimonthly pay to monthly pay.
The University of Wyoming is exempt from this subsection.
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210.
Amount of state's contribution; estimates submitted to state budget officer; specified employees participation in federal program; participating employers contributions.
(a)
Except for voluntary participating employers, volunteer firefighters, volunteer emergency medical technicians and volunteer search and rescue persons under W.S. 9
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220, the state shall contribute monthly
or semimonthly, as determined by the state auditor under W.S. 9
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402(c),
the amount established and appropriated by the legislature for each employee and official enrolled in the plan in accordance with subsections (b) and (c) of this section.
(b)
Any state agency, department or institution, including the University of Wyoming and the community colleges in the state, shall pay monthly
or semimonthly, as determined by the state auditor under W.S. 9
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402(c),
to the department the amount established and appropriated by the legislature for each eligible employee or official electing to become covered by any portion of the group insurance plan as the contribution of the state to that plan during the period the employee or official is enrolled in the plan. Amounts appropriated by the legislature from the general fund for University of Wyoming and community college employer contributions under this section shall include amounts necessary to fully fund the employer's contribution for those eligible and enrolled employees whose compensation is partially or fully funded from nonfederal sources, but the University of Wyoming shall exclude amounts necessary to fully fund the employer's contribution for those eligible and enrolled employees whose compensation is partially or fully funded from contracts, grants and auxiliary services. If federal funds are not available, the amounts necessary to fully fund the employer's contribution for those eligible and enrolled employees shall be included in the general fund appropriation. If the monthly premium for coverage of the employee or official is less than the amount established and appropriated by the legislature, the balance may be applied to the premium for coverage of dependents, or to the premium for any optional group insurance coverage made available by the department, if so elected.
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211.
Deductions from salaries of monthly or semimonthly contributions by employees and officials; establishment of procedure.
(a)
The amount of monthly
or semimonthly
contribution to be made by eligible employees and officials, excluding volunteer firefighters, volunteer emergency medical technicians and volunteer search and rescue persons under W.S. 9
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220, enrolled in the group insurance plan for themselves and their dependents shall be deducted from the monthly
or semimonthly
salaries of the employees and officials by the various agencies or voluntary participating employers and remitted to the department. The procedure for deductions and remittances shall be established by the department
, in consultation with the state auditor regarding the frequency for remittances established under W.S. 9
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402(c)
. If a flexible benefits plan is chosen, the employees' and officials' contribution shall be applied to the chosen benefits in an amount determined by the employee or official.
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413.
Employer's contributions; payable monthly; transfer to account; interest imposed upon delinquent contributions; recovery.
Except as provided by W.S. 9
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3207(a)(xi)(F)(III) or (IV), 9
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431 and 9
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432, each employer, excluding employers of firefighter members, shall, on a monthly
or semimonthly
basis
, as determined by the state auditor under W.S. 9
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402(c)
, pay into the account a contribution equal to nine and thirty
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seven hundredths percent (9.37%) of the salary paid to each of its members covered under this article for the period from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2026 and thereafter a percentage of the salary paid as determined in accordance with W.S. 9
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413.1.
Employers of firefighter members shall pay into the account a contribution equal to seven and twelve hundredths percent (7.12%) of the salary paid.
Employer contributions for any month, together with the members' contributions for that month, if any, shall be transferred to the board not later than the twelfth day of the following month
or, if deducted from salary on a semimonthly basis, in two (2) equal transfers to the board not later than the twelfth day and the twenty
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fourth day of the following month
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These contributions shall be credited to the account in a manner as directed by the board.
Any employer failing to transfer contributions under this section in sufficient time for the board to receive the contributions by the twenty
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fifth day of the month due shall be assessed interest at the assumed rate of return as determined by the board, compounded annually. Interest imposed under this section shall be payable not later than the twelfth day of the next succeeding month. If the contributions and any interest imposed under this section are not transferred to the board when due, they may be recovered, together with court costs, in an action brought for that purpose in the first judicial district court in Laramie County, Wyoming.
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413.1.
Members' and employers' contributions based on actuarially determined contribution rates; calculation of rates; reports.
(b)
The actuarially determined contribution rate shall be paid through monthly
or semimonthly
contributions
, as determined by the state auditor in accordance with W.S. 9
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402(c),
into the account as follows:
Section 2
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The state auditor, the department of administration and information, the Wyoming retirement system, the legislative service office, the Wyoming judicial branch and any other affected state agency shall take any action before July 1, 2027 necessary to implement this act on July 1, 2027.
Section 3
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(a)
Except as provided in 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)
Section 1 of this act is effective July 1, 2027.
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