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2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 15 - Presumptive Disability for Certain Diseases › Section 27-15-101 - Definitions.

27-15-101. Definitions.
(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Firefighter" means a paid fireman defined under W.S. 15-5-201(a)(xi), a firefighter member under W.S. 9-3-402(a)(xxv), an employee under W.S. 15-5-402(a)(viii), a volunteer fireman defined under W.S. 15-5-201(a)(xiv) and a volunteer firefighter or firefighter defined under W.S. 35-9-616(a)(x). "Firefighter" also means an individual employed by a municipal corporation or private organization who devotes the individual's entire time of employment to the provision of fire protection service for a city, town, county or fire protection district;
(ii) "Listed disease" means any of the following:
(A) Cancer, lymphoma or leukemia that may be caused by exposure to heat, smoke, radiation or a known or suspected carcinogen as determined by the International Agency for Research on Cancer;
(B) Cardiovascular disease;
(C) Acute myocardial infarction or stroke;
(D) A disease, illness, health impairment or disability determined on a case-by-case basis under W.S. 27-15-102(h).
(iii) "Minimum period of employment" means:
(A) Employment as a firefighter for at least ten (10) years; and
(B) For volunteer firefighters, an individual is considered to have been employed for the minimum period of employment if that individual while actively a volunteer participates or participated in a minimum of forty percent (40%) of the drills conducted by the individual's department and a minimum of twenty-five percent (25%) of the emergency calls received during the time the volunteer serves or served on call. Volunteer firefighter departments shall keep individual records that document the criteria in this subparagraph.
(iv) "This act" means W.S. 27-15-101 through 27-15-103.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 27 - Labor and Employment › Chapter 15 - Presumptive Disability for Certain Diseases › Section 27-15-103 - Presumption Rebuttal.

27-15-103. Presumption rebuttal.
A person opposed to the award of benefits or compensation listed under W.S. 27-15-102(b) may rebut the presumption under this act through a showing by a preponderance of the evidence that a risk factor, accident, hazard or other cause not associated with the firefighter's service was the dominant cause of the listed disease.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 28-1-101 - President of Senate to Preside Over Joint Sessions; Powers.

28-1-101. President of senate to preside over joint sessions; powers.
Whenever the senate and house of representatives of the legislature of the state of Wyoming shall meet in joint session, for the transaction of any business whatsoever, the duly elected and qualified president of the senate shall preside over the deliberations of any such joint session, with all the prerogatives and powers of a presiding officer, and the officers of both the senate and house shall be, during such joint session, under and subject to his direction.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 28-1-102 - Length of Legislative Sessions.

28-1-102. Length of legislative sessions.
(a) The general and budget session of the Wyoming legislature shall commence on the second Tuesday of January of odd-numbered years and shall continue for an additional thirty-nine (39) legislative working days unless both houses agree to an earlier adjournment.
(b) There shall be a legislative budget session each even-numbered year to consider the state budget and any other business the legislature deems desirable. The budget session of the Wyoming legislature shall commence on the second Monday of February of even-numbered years and shall continue for an additional number of legislative working days as agreed by both houses of the legislature or as limited by the Wyoming constitution.
(c) As used in this section "legislative working day" means every day of the week when either the senate or house of representatives convenes, exclusive of Sundays.
(d) Members of the legislature shall be paid salary and per diem for each calendar day from the first legislative working day of each session through and including the last legislative working day of each session.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 28-1-103 - Additional Employees.

28-1-103. Additional employees.
At any time during the session of the legislature when the employment of additional persons may be necessary for the efficient performance of the duties imposed upon the legislature, the senate and house of representatives are hereby authorized to employ such additional employees. All persons employed by either house shall at all times serve at the will of the presiding officer of that house.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 28-1-105 - Preservation of Records.

28-1-105. Preservation of records.
The original minutes, receipt books and miscellaneous records of the state legislature deposited with the secretary of state shall be retained by the secretary of state for a period of three (3) years. The original house bills and senate files shall be retained by the secretary of state for ten (10) years after which time the secretary of state will deliver them to the department of state parks and cultural resources for destruction or preservation as it may deem desirable. The original enrolled acts, and the original senate and house journals shall be retained by the secretary of state as permanent records.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 28-1-106 - Resignation of Office.

28-1-106. Resignation of office.
Resignation of the office of a member of the senate or house of representatives shall be made to the governor, who shall immediately notify the state central committee of the party which the member represented at the time of his election under W.S. 22-6-120(a)(vii), or at the time of his appointment if not elected to office, of the resignation. If the resigning member did not represent a political party at the time of his election, or at the time of his appointment if not elected to office, the governor shall notify the appropriate boards of county commissioners who shall proceed in accordance with W.S. 22-18-111(a)(iii)(C). For purposes of this section a person shall be considered to "represent" a political party if he was a nominee of that political party when elected to office or when appointed to fill a vacancy in office.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 28-1-107 - Definitions.

28-1-107. Definitions.
(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Committee" means any duly constituted committee of the legislature, any standing committee of either house of the legislature, joint interim committee of the legislature, special investigating committee established by joint resolution of the legislature and the committees established by W.S. 28-11-101, 28-11-201 and 28-11-301;
(ii) "Council" means the management council of the legislature;
(iii) "Legislature" means the Wyoming legislature;
(iv) "Subpoena" means a legislative subpoena or subpoena duces tecum in such form and issued pursuant to rules prescribed by the legislature or council;
(v) "This act" means W.S. 28-1-107 through 28-1-112 and any future amendments thereto.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 28-1-109 - Issuance and Service of Subpoena; Privilege of Witness; Witness Fees and Expenses.

28-1-109. Issuance and service of subpoena; privilege of witness; witness fees and expenses.
(a) The presiding officer of either house of the legislature, the council, or a committee may issue a subpoena upon request of a majority of the members of the body. Subpoenas also may be issued on behalf of the management audit committee as provided by W.S. 28-8-107(h).
(b) A subpoena shall be served by the sheriff or his deputy, or may be served by any other person so designated by the presiding officer. Service of a subpoena upon a person named therein shall be made either by reading or by delivering a copy to the person. The person serving the subpoena shall make proof of service thereof to the issuing body promptly and in any event within the time during which the person served must respond to the subpoena.
(c) No witness before the legislature, the council, or any committee is privileged to refuse to testify to any fact or to produce any book, paper, or other document relevant to the matter under inquiry on the ground that his testimony or production of the document may tend to disgrace him or otherwise render him infamous.
(d) Witnesses not employees of the state of Wyoming nor of any political subdivision of the state who are summoned to give testimony or produce documents shall receive witness fees, travel expenses, and other expenses in the same amount as permitted in civil cases triable in district court.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 28-1-110 - Failure to Appear; Refusal to Testify or Produce Documents; Disturbances.

28-1-110. Failure to appear; refusal to testify or produce documents; disturbances.
(a) Any person having been subpoenaed as a witness by the authority of the legislature, council or committee to give testimony or produce books, papers or other documents relevant to the matter under inquiry before the legislature, council, or any committee, who fails to appear, refuses to be sworn, refuses to answer any question relevant to the matter under inquiry, or fails to produce any books, papers or other documents relevant to the matter under inquiry, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) Any person attending a meeting or hearing of the legislature, the council, or any committee, who is disorderly or contemptuous or who willfully creates noise or any other disturbance tending to interrupt or disrupt the meeting or hearing, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(c) Any person who violates this section, upon conviction, a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, may be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and imprisonment in county jail for a period not to exceed six (6) months.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 28-1-111 - Certification of Violations for Prosecution.

28-1-111. Certification of violations for prosecution.
Whenever any witness subpoenaed to appear or produce documents before the legislature, council, or any committee, fails to appear to testify, refuses to be sworn, fails to answer any question relevant to matter under inquiry, fails to produce any book, paper or other document relevant to the matter under inquiry, or whenever any person is alleged to have violated W.S. 28-1-110(b), the presiding officer of the body shall certify that failure or violation to the appropriate district attorney for prosecution of the matter in the appropriate court.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 28-1-112 - Court Order to Appear to Testify or Produce Documents.

28-1-112. Court order to appear to testify or produce documents.
In case of refusal to obey a subpoena issued by the legislature, council, or any committee, the presiding officer of the body shall apply to the district court for the district in which the proceedings are being held, for an order requiring the person to appear before the legislature, the council, the committee or other person designated by the presiding officer at the time and place requested by the application, there to produce the documentary evidence or give testimony on the matter under inquiry. Failure to obey the court order may be punished by the court as a contempt of court.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 28-1-113 - Joint Meetings of Legislative Standing Committees; Introduction and Passage of Budget Bill.

28-1-113. Joint meetings of legislative standing committees; introduction and passage of budget bill.
(a) The joint appropriations committee shall sit in open sessions while considering the budget and shall begin meetings not less than twenty (20) days prior to the convening of the budget session. The joint committee may cause the attendance of the heads or responsible representatives of the departments, institutions and all other agencies of the state to furnish information and answer questions as the joint committee requires.
(b) All persons interested in the estimates under consideration shall be admitted to the meetings and may be allowed the right to be heard. The governor, or his representatives, and members of the legislature have the right to sit at these public hearings and be heard on all matters coming before the joint committee.
(c) The joint committee shall cause the general appropriation bill or bills known as budget bills, to be introduced in whole or in part in the house of representatives or the senate, or both. When a budget bill has passed the house of origin, the bill shall be referred to the standing appropriations committee of the opposite house which shall meet and consider those amendments to the budget bill which were adopted by the house of origin and shall not propose other amendments to any original joint appropriations committee budget bill.
(d) To the extent not inconsistent with any enacted law or clear expression of legislative intent to the contrary, each agency's budget request as recommended by the governor to the joint appropriations interim committee, any other budgetary explanatory material submitted to the joint appropriations interim committee by the governor and the budget hearings before the joint appropriations interim committee shall guide the interpretation and implementation of appropriations and related language contained within the general appropriations bill or bills appropriating funds to be expended for the operation of a state agency, including programs, purposes and number of employees specified within each agency.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 28-1-116 - Continuous Planning; Performance Budgeting.

28-1-116. Continuous planning; performance budgeting.
(a) On or before July 1, 1995, and by March 31 of each odd-numbered year thereafter, the governor shall define state goals and objectives in the following areas:
(i) Education;
(ii) Regulatory and economic development;
(iii) Natural resources;
(iv) Health;
(v) Human services;
(vi) Transportation;
(vii) Public safety and corrections;
(viii) General government.
(b) The governor may submit draft goals and objectives to the management council for comment.
(c) On or before September 1 of each odd numbered year, each state agency, as defined under W.S. 28-1-115(g), following an opportunity for public review, shall submit to and have approved by the governor a plan as described by W.S. 28-1-115(a)(ii).
(d) Repealed By Laws 1997, ch. 178, 2.
(e) When the governor submits the state budget or a supplemental budget as required under W.S. 9-2-1013, he shall also distribute agency plans required under subsection (c) of this section. The budget for each agency shall be performance and program based and shall reflect the goals and objectives specified in the agency's plan.
(f) All dates established in this section or in W.S. 28-1-115 may be extended by the governor.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 28-1-118 - Legislative Review of State Revenue Distribution Formulae; Reports Required.

28-1-118. Legislative review of state revenue distribution formulae; reports required.
The joint revenue interim committee shall submit a report to the governor and legislature by December 1, 2004, and by December 1 of each fourth year thereafter, reviewing the distribution formulae for federal mineral royalties, severance taxes and inheritance taxes. The report shall indicate whether the formulae are understandable to public policy makers, serve the needs of the citizens of the state and whether the distinction between sustainable revenues and "one-time" revenues contained therein is reasonable. The report may contain recommendations for legislation.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 2 - Legislative Districts of Members › Section 28-2-117 - Effective Date of Changes in Legislative Districts; Election of Holdover Senators.

28-2-117. Effective date of changes in legislative districts; election of holdover senators.
(a) Changes in all legislative districts are effective for the 2022 general election cycle and the sixty-seventh legislature.
(b) Members for senate districts designated as odd-numbered districts in W.S. 28-2-118(b) shall be elected for a term of four (4) years at the 2022 general election. As provided in subsection (c) of this section, no election shall be held in 2022 for senate districts designated as even-numbered districts in W.S. 28-2-118(b) for which members were elected at the 2020 general election and nothing in this act shall affect the terms of those members. Members for senate districts designated as even-numbered districts in W.S. 28-2-118(b), shall be elected for a term of four (4) years at the 2024 general election.
(c) A member elected in the 2020 general election for a senate district designated as an even-numbered district in W.S. 28-2-118(b) who has been removed from the district as a result of district boundary changes made by this act may continue to serve the remainder of the member's term for the district from which the member was elected.
(d) Nothing in this act otherwise affects the terms of members of the sixty-sixth legislature.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 2 - Legislative Districts of Members › Section 28-2-118 - Senate Legislative Districts; List of Nested House Districts Formed to Create Senate Districts.

28-2-118. Senate legislative districts; list of nested house districts formed to create senate districts.
(a) Subsection (b) of this section creates legislative districts for the Wyoming senate consisting of the numbered legislative districts contained therein. There shall be one (1) senator elected from each legislative district as specified in subsection (b) of this section. If the senate district is listed with two (2) house districts in subsection (b) of this section, those senate districts shall consist of the entirety of the geographic area of the two (2) house districts listed in subsection (b) of this section for each senate district and as fully described in "Attachment A." All senate districts are fully described in "Attachment B."
(b) Senate districts shall be organized as follows:
(i) Senate District 1 House Districts 1 and 52;
(ii) Senate District 2 House Districts 6 and 62;
(iii) Senate District 3 House Districts 2 and 5;
(iv) Senate Districts 4 House Districts 7 and 8;
(v) Senate District 5 House Districts 12 and 42;
(vi) Senate District 6 House Districts 4 and 10;
(vii) Senate District 7 House Districts 9 and 41;
(viii) Senate District 8 House Districts 11 and 44;
(ix) Senate District 9 - House Districts 13 and 45;
(x) Senate District 10 House Districts 14 and 46;
(xi) Senate District 11 House Districts 15 and 47;
(xii) Senate District 12 House Districts 17 and 48;
(xiii) Senate District 13 House Districts 39 and 60;
(xiv) Senate District 14 House Districts 18 and 20;
(xv) Senate District 15 House Districts 19 and 49;
(xvi) Senate District 16 House Districts 21 and 22;
(xvii) Senate District 17 House Districts 16 and 23;
(xviii) Senate District 18 House Districts 24 and 50;
(xix) Senate District 19 House Districts 25 and 26;
(xx) Senate District 20 House Districts 27 and 28;
(xxi) Senate District 21;
(xxii) Senate District 22;
(xxiii) Senate District 23 House Districts 3 and 31;
(xxiv) Senate District 24 House Districts 32 and 53;
(xxv) Senate District 25 House Districts 33 and 54;
(xxvi) Senate District 26 House Districts 34 and 55;
(xxvii) Senate District 27 House Districts 35 and 36;
(xxviii) Senate District 28 House Districts 56 and 57;
(xxix) Senate District 29 House Districts 37 and 59;
(xxx) Senate District 30 House Districts 38 and 58; and
(xxxi) Senate District 31 House Districts 43 and 61.
(c) See Attachment B.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 2 - Legislative Districts of Members › Section 28-2-119 - House Legislative Districts; Lists of Census Blocks for Split Voter Tabulation Districts in the House of Representatives.

28-2-119. House legislative districts; lists of census blocks for split voter tabulation districts in the house of representatives.
(a) Subsection (b) of this section creates legislative districts for the Wyoming house of representatives consisting of the numbered legislative districts contained therein. There shall be one (1) representative elected from each legislative district as specified in subsection (b) of this section. The area within a county, voter tabulation district or census block as provided in paragraphs (i) through (iii) of this subsection is determined using the United States bureau of the census topologically integrated geographic encoding and referencing data base (TIGER ). Each numbered legislative district in subsection (b) of this section consists of the combined geographic area within the:
(i) Entire specified county, if the county alone is listed with no geographic subdivision listed below it;
(ii) Voter tabulation district, if any are listed below the specified county; and
(iii) Census block, if any are listed below the specified voter tabulation district. A census block listed below a voter tabulation district indicates a split voter tabulation district.
(b) See Attachment A.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 3 - Senate › Section 28-3-101 - President.

28-3-101. President.
(a) There shall be a president of the senate whose duties shall be:
(i) To take the chair at the hour fixed for the meeting of the senate, and call the members to order;
(ii) To announce the business before the senate in the order in which it is to be taken up;
(iii) To receive and submit in proper manner all motions and propositions presented by the members, and to announce the result;
(iv) To receive messages and other communications from other branches of the government, and to announce them to the senate;
(v) To authenticate by his signature, when necessary, all bills, orders and proceedings of the senate;
(vi) To name the members of all committees, unless otherwise directed by the senate.
(b) He may call any member to the chair, but such substitution shall not extend beyond an adjournment, except that in the case of sickness, he may, with the approval of the senate, appoint a member to perform the duties of the president for a period not exceeding ten (10) days.
(c) He shall have the regulation of such parts of the capitol and its passages, and any building in which the legislature meets while displaced from the capitol, as are or may be set apart for the use of the senate and its officers.
(d) He shall refer all matters to be committed to the committee most appropriate to take charge of the same.
(e) He shall, whenever a motion is made and carried to shut the doors of the senate chamber, in the discussion of any question which may, in the opinion of any member, require secrecy, direct the senate chamber to be cleared, and during the discussion of such question, the doors shall remain closed.
(f) He shall call a member to fill the chair whenever the senate resolves itself into a committee of the whole, and the chairman so called shall have the power of the president of senate, until such committee rise.
(g) He shall preserve order and decorum and may speak to points of order, in preference to other members, rising from his seat for that purpose.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 3 - Senate › Section 28-3-103 - Employees Generally.

28-3-103. Employees generally.
(a) At the beginning of each session of the legislature, the senate thereof shall engage such employee personnel for said session, upon respective compensation bases, as decided by it.
(b) The senate may authorize personnel to be employed beyond the adjournment of the session in order to complete recordkeeping of each session and prepare for each session of the legislature. The president of the senate, subject to legislative appropriation, shall establish the compensation of any staff so employed whose duties shall be performed under the direction of the president.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 3 - Senate › Section 28-3-104 - Chief Clerk.

28-3-104. Chief clerk.
(a) There shall be a chief clerk whose duties shall be:
(i) To keep a correct journal of the proceedings of the senate;
(ii) To read aloud all papers handed to him for that purpose by any member;
(iii) To certify and transmit to the house of representatives all bills, resolutions and other papers requiring the concurrence of said house, immediately after its passage;
(iv) To notify the house on the concurrence or disagreement by the senate in any vote of the house;
(v) To permit no papers or records belonging to the senate to be taken out of his custody otherwise than in the regular course of business;
(vi) To perform all other duties pertaining to his office under the direction of the president.
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2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 3 - Senate › Section 28-4-101 - Initial Calling of House to Order; Election of Temporary Speaker.

28-4-101. Initial calling of house to order; election of temporary speaker.
Upon the assemblage of the state legislature upon the first day of each regular session thereof, it shall be the duty of the secretary of state to call the house of representatives to order at twelve (12:00) o'clock noon, calling the roll of members entitled to seats according to the certificate of the state canvassing board, filed in the office of secretary of state, whereupon it shall be his duty to call for the nomination and election of a temporary speaker, upon the election of whom the secretary of state shall forthwith surrender his place to the duly elected temporary presiding officer.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 3 - Senate › Section 28-4-102 - Speaker; Speaker Pro Tem.

28-4-102. Speaker; speaker pro tem.
(a) There shall be a speaker of the house who shall take the chair at the hour fixed for the meeting of the house, and call the members to order, and shall perform the following duties:
(i) To announce the business before the house in the order in which it is to be taken up;
(ii) To receive and submit, in proper manner, all motions and propositions presented by the members, and to announce the result;
(iii) To receive messages and other communications from other branches of the government, and announce them to the house;
(iv) To authenticate by his signature, when necessary, all bills, orders and proceedings of the house;
(v) To name the members of all committees, unless otherwise directed by the house.
(b) He may call any member to the chair, but such substitution shall not extend beyond an adjournment.
(c) He shall have the regulation of such parts of the capitol and its passages, and any building in which the legislature meets while displaced from the capitol, as are or may be set apart for the use of the house or its officers.
(d) He shall refer all matters to be committed to the committee most appropriate to take charge of the same.
(e) He shall call a member to fill the chair whenever the house resolves itself into a committee of the whole.
(f) He shall preserve order and decorum, and may speak to points of order in preference to other members, rising from his seat for that purpose.
(g) When the house is in a committee of the whole, should there be any disorderly conduct in the lobby, or any part of the house, the speaker shall immediately resume the chair, and shall have the power to order the house cleared until order is restored.
(h) The house shall elect a speaker pro tem, who, in the absence of the speaker, shall exercise all the powers and authority of the speaker, and shall perform all his duties.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 3 - Senate › Section 28-4-103 - Employees Generally.

28-4-103. Employees generally.
(a) At the beginning of each session of the legislature, the house of representatives thereof shall engage such employee personnel for said session, upon respective compensation bases, as decided by it.
(b) The house may authorize personnel to be employed beyond the adjournment of the session in order to complete recordkeeping of each session and prepare for each session of the legislature. The speaker of the house, subject to legislative appropriation, shall establish the compensation of any staff so employed whose duties shall be performed under the direction of the speaker.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 3 - Senate › Section 28-4-104 - Chief Clerk.

28-4-104. Chief clerk.
(a) There shall be a chief clerk whose duties shall be as follows:
(i) To keep a correct journal of the proceedings of the house;
(ii) To read aloud all papers handed to him for that purpose by any member;
(iii) To certify to, and transmit to the senate, all bills, resolutions and other papers requiring the concurrence of the senate, immediately after their passage;
(iv) To notify the senate on the concurrence or disagreement by the house in any vote of the senate;
(v) To permit no papers or records belonging to the house to be taken out of his custody otherwise than in the regular course of business;
(vi) To perform all other duties pertaining to his office under the direction of the speaker.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 5 - Compensation of Members › Section 28-5-103 - Additional Compensation of President of Senate and Speaker of House.

28-5-103. Additional compensation of president of senate and speaker of house.
The president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives, shall each receive three dollars ($3.00) per day for his services, in addition to his compensation as a member of the legislature, and shall receive no other compensation, perquisite or allowance whatever.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 5 - Compensation of Members › Section 28-5-106 - Constituent Service Allowance.

28-5-106. Constituent service allowance.
(a) Repealed By Laws 2014, Ch. 59, 2.
(b) Each member of the legislature is entitled to receive a constituent service allowance as provided under this section. This allowance is intended to defray expenses incurred by each member in providing service to and on behalf of their constituents, which services are in addition to attending sessions of the legislature, attending meetings of interim committees and engaging in authorized interim work for which salary, per diem and mileage is authorized by law. The allowance is subject to the following:
(i) Repealed By Laws 2013, Ch. 37, 2.
(ii) Repealed By Laws 2013, Ch. 37, 2.
(iii) Repealed By Laws 2013, Ch. 37, 2.
(iv) The allowance of seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) per calendar quarter or fractional portion thereof that the member is in office shall be paid quarterly to all incumbent legislators.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 7 - Lobbyists › Article 1 - In General › Section 28-7-101 - Registration; Reports.

28-7-101. Registration; reports.
(a) As used in W.S. 28-7-101 through 28-7-104 "lobby" or "as a lobbyist" means to attempt to influence legislation.
(b) Any person, who, on behalf of any association, corporation, labor union, public, nonprofit or private special interest group or any interest other than personal, is receiving or has a reasonable expectation of receiving expense reimbursement or compensation in excess of five hundred dollars ($500.00) in a reporting period defined under W.S. 28-7-201(c), as a lobbyist shall, before, or within forty-eight (48) hours of, commencing lobbying activities during a reporting period as defined under W.S. 28-7-201(c), register with the secretary of state. The secretary of state shall collect a registration fee of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) at time of registration, which shall be deposited with the state treasurer to be placed in the general fund. Any person who is not receiving or has no reasonable expectation of receiving expense reimbursement or compensation in excess of five hundred dollars ($500.00), or who shall receive no compensation beyond travel and per diem expenses for lobbying activities under this chapter shall pay a registration fee of ten dollars ($10.00) to the secretary of state at the time of registration. Registration shall state:
(i) The name and business address of the individual registering;
(ii) The name and business address of the association, corporation, labor union, public, nonprofit or private special interest group which the person represents.
(c) Not later than March 1 of each year the secretary of state shall make available a report of the registrations to all duly elected members of the house of representatives, the senate, state elected officials and any other person requesting a copy of the report.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 7 - Lobbyists › Article 1 - In General › Section 28-7-102 - Penalties.

28-7-102. Penalties.
(a) Any person or individual failing to register as a lobbyist with the secretary of state shall be guilty of a misdemeanor subject to a fine of not more than two hundred dollars ($200.00).
(b) Any person or organization failing to file a lobbyist activity report required under W.S. 28-7-201 or who files a lobbyist activity report containing information which the lobbyist knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00). Upon a second or subsequent conviction under this section, any person or organization shall have his right to be a registered lobbyist revoked by the secretary of state for a period of up to two (2) years in addition to any fine.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 7 - Lobbyists › Article 1 - In General › Section 28-7-103 - No Infringement of Right to Petition or Communicate With Legislature.

28-7-103. No infringement of right to petition or communicate with legislature.
Nothing in the provisions of this article shall be construed to prohibit or infringe upon the right of a citizen as an individual to petition or to address written or oral communications to members of the legislature.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 8 - Legislative Service Office › Section 28-8-103 - Director and Staff.

28-8-103. Director and staff.
The management council shall appoint by majority vote a director of the office. The director, subject to the prior approval of the management council, may appoint assistant directors. The director shall appoint such professional, technical and clerical staff as necessary to perform the functions assigned to the office. The director and staff shall be selected without reference to political affiliation and shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority. They shall be paid salaries and receive necessary expenses as determined by the management council.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 8 - Legislative Service Office › Section 28-8-104 - Direction by Legislature During Sessions; Joint Interim Committees; Requests for Services; Establishment of Priorities; Appointment of Select Committees; Vacancies; Enlarging Committees.

28-8-104. Direction by legislature during sessions; joint interim committees; requests for services; establishment of priorities; appointment of select committees; vacancies; enlarging committees.
(a) The legislature during regular or special session may direct the director and his staff to perform such studies, duties or services as the legislature may prescribe.
(b) When the legislature is not in regular or special session, the respective standing committees of the house and senate shall function as joint interim committees. Each of these interim committees may request the office to perform specific studies and services for the interim committee conditioned only upon receipt of prior approval of the committee's request by the management council. All priorities based upon limitation of time and appropriation of the office shall be established by the management council and followed by the interim committees and individual legislators. Any specific study or service that is approved by the management council, including bill drafting and prefiling, shall be done under the supervision of the appropriate interim committee or the individual legislator.
(c) The management council shall have the right, when a joint interim committee is not performing its assigned study or a special study is desired, to appoint a select committee of not less than three (3) members without regard to its house or senate makeup to carry out the duties of the interim committee or the special study.
(d) The management council shall have the right to fill any vacancy or enlarge any committee to facilitate any assigned studies conducted during the interim.
(e) Of committees comprised of members of both houses of the legislature, only management council, joint interim committees of the legislature, the joint appropriations committee, the management audit committee and select committees explicitly authorized by statute or joint rule or resolution of the legislature shall sponsor and introduce legislation during a legislative session. Nothing in this subsection shall restrict the right of a member of the legislature to sponsor legislation.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 8 - Legislative Service Office › Section 28-8-106 - Purchase and Distribution of Statutes, Supplements and Session Laws.

28-8-106. Purchase and distribution of statutes, supplements and session laws.
The legislative service office shall purchase such number of copies of statutes, supplements or session laws as the management council may direct. The legislative service office shall retain such copies as necessary for its own use and distribute the balance as directed.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 8 - Legislative Service Office › Section 28-8-108 - Comments, Recommendations and Suggestions in Audit Reports; Disclosure of Confidential Information; Unauthorized Reports or Releases; Reporting Criminal Violations.

28-8-108. Comments, recommendations and suggestions in audit reports; disclosure of confidential information; unauthorized reports or releases; reporting criminal violations.
(a) The reports of the legislative service office may include comments, recommendations and suggestions, but neither the director nor the auditors shall have any authority to enforce any recommendation or suggestion nor shall they otherwise influence or direct executive or legislative action. All information obtained by the legislative service office related to an audit is deemed not to be a public record and shall remain confidential information in the possession of the legislative service office. Except as otherwise provided in this section or W.S. 28-8-107(d), this information may be disclosed by the legislative service office only to members of the legislative committee for which the information was obtained, only to the extent necessary to document a statement or report, and only in a manner that protects individual identities.
(b) Any member of the legislative service office who knowingly discloses confidential information other than as authorized by this section, discloses the contents of audit reports prohibited by W.S. 28-8-107 or releases other reports or information not authorized by the management council, the management audit committee or by statute is subject to immediate termination of employment.
(c) If information obtained by the legislative service office related to an audit discloses an indication of a violation of any criminal law of this state the information shall be reported by the legislative service office employee discovering the apparent violation to the director who shall report the apparent violation to the chairman of the management audit committee and thereafter or concurrently therewith, to the attorney general. Any report under this subsection may be made with the supporting information from the audit determined to be necessary or convenient. Upon request of the attorney general in investigating any apparent violation reported pursuant to this subsection, the legislative service office shall make available to the attorney general any information requested which was obtained during the audit, regardless of the status of the audit report.
(d) The legislative service office shall release information obtained in conducting an audit in response to a court subpoena in a criminal proceeding.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 8 - Legislative Service Office › Section 28-8-109 - Reports by Director to Legislature.

28-8-109. Reports by director to legislature.
The director and his staff shall prepare and deliver a report of the activities of the office to each member of the legislature not later than January 15th of each calendar year, or at such other times as the management council deems necessary or as requested by the legislature.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 8 - Legislative Service Office › Section 28-8-110 - Mileage, Salary and per Diem of Legislators Engaging in Activities.

28-8-110. Mileage, salary and per diem of legislators engaging in activities.
All members of the legislature shall receive their statutory mileage, salary and per diem for each day actually spent in legislative-directed or management council-approved activities of the office.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 8 - Legislative Service Office › Section 28-8-111 - Assistance to Be Provided by State and Local Officers or Agencies; Duty of Audited Agencies.

28-8-111. Assistance to be provided by state and local officers or agencies; duty of audited agencies.
(a) Upon request of the director and with the approval of the management council or the management audit committee, each officer, board, commission, department or any political subdivision of state government or any local government shall provide assistance, documents and information to the legislative service office.
(b) In preparing fiscal and personnel notes for proposed legislation as required by joint rule of the legislature, the state budget department and any agency or department of state government shall furnish any information or assistance relative thereto as soon as reasonably practicable upon request of the director.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 8 - Legislative Service Office › Section 28-8-112 - Space in State Capitol Building and Annexation.

28-8-112. Space in state capitol building and annexation.
(a) The following areas in the state capitol building, including the extension from the capitol building to and under the Herschler building and within the Herschler building, shall be rooms and halls provided for the conduct of activities of the legislature, its committees, the legislative service office and necessary legislative staff, and the management council:
(i) On the garden level of the capitol building, rooms in the west half of the capitol building and the room on the northwest corner of the east half of the garden level;
(ii) On the first floor of the capitol building:
(A) The two (2) meeting rooms adjacent to the west wall of the building and the hospitality room contiguous to the north meeting room;
(B) The room on the southeast corner of the west half of the first floor.
(iii) The second and third floors of the capitol building, inclusive of hallways and stairways on those floors;
(iv) Within the extension from the capitol building to and under the Herschler building, the six (6) meeting rooms, three (3) rooms in the east wing under the Herschler building, dedicated to a learning center, media room and visitor center, and the room designated as a "leg. copy" room on page 34 of the presentation to the capitol building rehabilitation and restoration oversight group on March 9, 2016, which presentation is on file with the legislative service office;
(v) That area on the first floor, west wing of the Herschler building designated as "legislature" on page 35 (bearing the label "Herschler First Floor - Proposed assignments), of the presentation to the capitol building rehabilitation and restoration oversight group on March 9, 2016, and as subsequently reduced on the north side by action of the state capitol building rehabilitation and restoration oversight group on August 22, 2018, as reflected in the minutes of the meeting on file with the legislative service office;
(vi) During legislative sessions, the presiding officers of the house and senate shall have the regulation of passageways on the second and third floors of the capitol building and passageways adjacent to or contiguous with the meeting rooms specified in subparagraph (ii)(A) and paragraph (iv) of this subsection;
(vii) All areas devoted to mechanical systems within the areas specified in paragraphs (i) through (vi) of this subsection shall not be considered areas for the conduct of activities of the legislature and shall be managed by the state building commission.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 28 - Legislature › Chapter 8 - Legislative Service Office › Section 28-8-113 - Duty of Agency Officers and Employees; Legislative Service Office Access to Records; Failure to Provide Access; Penalty.

28-8-113. Duty of agency officers and employees; legislative service office access to records; failure to provide access; penalty.
(a) Any officer or employee of a state agency subject to audit or other review by the legislature shall fully assist the legislative service office during the course of the audit or review. The legislative service office shall have access to and authority to examine all books, records, accounts, files, correspondence and all other documents, confidential or otherwise, maintained by the agency or its employees during the course of agency business. The provisions of W.S. 16-4-201 through 16-4-205 do not apply to audits or investigations of state agencies performed by or on behalf of the legislature or legislative committees. Any member of the legislative service office who discloses confidential information obtained while conducting an audit, to any person or in any manner not authorized by law, is subject to disciplinary action as provided by W.S. 28-8-108(b).
(b) Any officer or employee of an agency who knowingly fails or refuses to permit such access and examination is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed six (6) months, or both.