§ 28-1-115 — Submission of state agency plans to legislature; contents; purposes

(a) To assist the legislature in its deliberations, every
state agency shall:
(i) No later than December 1, 1994, prepare and
thereafter maintain a statement of policies and statutory
authority that guide the programs, activities and functions of
the agency. The plan shall specify those objectives against
which the agency will be measured to evaluate its effectiveness.
An agency may implement only those programs that are
specifically established by constitutional or statutory
authority;
(ii) As required by the governor or by the
legislature by law, develop a multi-year plan to accomplish and
further the goals and objectives defined in W.S. 28-1-116(a).
The plan development shall include an opportunity for public
review and comment. The plan shall be submitted to the governor
for his approval. The plan shall:
(A) Include performance measures that provide
methods and criteria to measure the agency's performance in
conducting its activities and in achieving its goals and
objectives. The methods and criteria shall comply with
standards developed by the governmental accounting standards
board. Performance measures shall be developed by the agency
and audited by the department of audit;
(B) State the relative priority that each
current or proposed program bears with regard to all other
programs and objectives within the agency;
(C) Be developed with a multi-year prospective
and provide the strategic approach within which the agency's
budget request is developed;
(D) Include sufficient information for
evaluation of the following:
(I) The specific purpose of each program,
function and activity of the executive branch of government or
any other major entity that receives funding from state revenue;
(II) The specific public benefit that does
or should result from the program, function or activity;
(III) Alternative courses of action that
would result in administration of the same program, function or
activity in a more efficient or effective manner including:
(1) Whether a program, function or
activity could be implemented more effectively by another level
of government or by a private entity;
(2) Whether there is sufficient public
benefit to justify the funding necessary for the program,
function or activity.
(IV) The consequences of discontinuing any
program, function or activity;
(V) Whether the methods, rules and policies
employed by the agency to implement a program, function or
activity are cost-effective, efficient and consistent with law
and impose a minimum of regulatory burden;
(VI) The results and outcomes associated
with the program, function or activity from the previous plan.
(b) Financial resources necessary to implement the
policies and goals of each agency program shall be clearly
identified as a part of each biennial or supplemental budget
request. Any state program, function or activity not included
in an annual state agency plan shall not receive funding for the
subsequent budget period.
(c) Each agency shall submit by the third Monday in
November of each year an annual performance report to the
governor with copies to the legislative service office to
provide a basis for evaluation of attainment of agency goals and
objectives in the agency's plan developed under subsection (a)
of this section. The report shall be included as part of the
annual report required by W.S. 9-2-1014(a).
(d) The management audit committee of the legislature,
with the assistance of the legislative service office and the
department of audit, may use the agency plans and annual
statement of attainment as the basis for program evaluation and
performance audits as authorized by law.
(e) Repealed by Laws 2018, ch. 99, § 2.
(f) The plan required under W.S. 28-1-115(a)(ii) may be
reviewed by the management audit committee of the legislature
and shall be reviewed by the management audit committee if:
(i) Required by the management council of the
legislature; or
(ii) Otherwise required by law.
(g) For purposes of this section and W.S. 28-1-116, "state
agency" means:
(i) Each separate department in the executive branch
of government created under the authority of the Wyoming
Government Reorganization Act of 1989, W.S. 9-2-1701 et seq.;
(ii) Offices of the five (5) elected state officials
and the attorney general; and
(iii) Each agency designated as a separate operating
agency under W.S. 9-2-1704(d).