SF0180 • 2025

Supplemental budgets-limitations.

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; specifying requirements and limitations for supplemental budget requests; repealing a provision regarding the preparation of alternative budgets; making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date.

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Inactive

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

Sponsor: Senator Smith, D
Last action: 2025-03-03
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The bill's status as inactive means it will not become law in the current session.

Rules for Extra Budget Requests

The bill sets rules for extra budget requests and removes a rule about making backup budgets.

What This Bill Does

Adds new rules to limit what can be included in extra budget requests from the governor or state agencies, specifying that such requests must cover only necessary reductions due to revenue shortfalls, disaster-related costs, public welfare emergencies, savings adjustments, and personnel changes.
Removes a rule requiring the preparation of alternative budgets.

Who It Names or Affects

The governor
State agencies

Terms To Know

Supplemental budget request: An extra request to add money to the state's main budget during the year.
Revenue shortfall: When there is less income than expected for the government.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify how often or when extra budget requests can be made.
It's unclear if this bill will become a law since it was marked as inactive and died in committee.

Bill History

2025-03-03 Senate
S:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to SR 5-4
2025-02-10 Senate
S No report prior to CoW Cutoff
2025-02-05 Senate
S01 - Judiciary:Do Pass Failed 2-3-0-0-0
2025-01-29 Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary
2025-01-27 Senate
S Received for Introduction
2025-01-25 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0437
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0437
Numbered
2.0

SENATE FILE NO. SF0180

Supplemental budgets-limitations.

Sponsored by: Senator(s) Smith, D, French, Hutchings, Ide, Kolb, Laursen, D, McKeown and Pearson and Representative(s) Filer and Smith, S

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to the administration of the government; specifying requirements and limitations for supplemental budget requests; repealing a provision regarding the preparation of alternative budgets; making conforming amendments; 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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1013(d) by creating a new paragraph (vii) is amended to read:

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1013.

State budget; distribution of copies to legislators; copies and reports of authorizations; interfund loans.

(d)

In addition to the items contained in subsection (a) of this section and notwithstanding any other recommendations made by the governor, the state budget shall also include the governor's recommendations for appropriations for the ensuing two (2) years, or if a supplemental budget
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request,
the remainder of the budget period, subject to the following:

(vii)

Any recommendations in a supplemental budget from the governor or agencies shall be limited to the following recommendations for amendments to the state budget:

(A)

Necessary reductions occasioned by the most recent published consensus revenue estimating group estimate of revenue shortfalls;

(B)

Appropriations necessitated by human or natural disasters;

(C)

Appropriations necessitated by public welfare emergencies as defined by W.S. 9
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1002(a)(xxv) for which amounts appropriated for public welfare emergencies under W.S. 9
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1014.3 are insufficient;

(D)

Recommendations regarding increases or decreases to savings;

(E)

Necessary personnel adjustments.

Section 2.

W.S. 9
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1013(d)(vi) is repealed.

Section 3
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This act is effective July 1, 2025.

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