§ 28-8-105 — Duties of director and staff; prefiling bills; fiscal notes

Wyoming § 28-8-105

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 28: Legislature
• Ch. 8: LEGISLATIVE SERVICE OFFICE

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(a) It shall be the duty of the director and staff to
perform the following specific functions, together with such
other functions as the council may prescribe:
(i) Provide information during the legislative
session and interim periods for any legislative, interim or
standing committee or individual legislator;
(ii) Provide for and use an automated bill-drafting
system;
(iii) Aid any legislator in drafting bills,
resolutions or amendments prior to a general election, or aid
any person who will be a member of the next session of the
legislature in drafting or prefiling legislative bills,
resolutions, or amendments, when the legislator aids and assists
in the drafting and in the case of prefiling agrees to sponsor
the bill, resolution or amendment. The management council may
limit at its discretion, the number of bills that any legislator
or person may have drafted or prefiled, but there shall be no
limit applied to any standing or interim committee;
(iv) Keep a record of all expenditures of the
legislature, and keep a correct inventory and act as custodian
of all legislative supplies and property;
(v) Compile such laws of the state of Wyoming as are
designated by the management council. In preparing copy for
printing any revision or compilation of laws, deletions of
obsolete or fully executed date references and corrections in
punctuation, spelling, grammatical construction, section numbers
or headings may be made provided such deletions and corrections
do not alter the meaning;
(vi) Serve, or designate a qualified staff attorney
to serve, as a member of the National Conference of
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
(b) Bills or files, resolutions or memorials may be
prefiled by any person who will be a member of the next session
of the legislature after the general election and prior to the
convening of a regular session of the legislature. They shall be
submitted to the director in such form as is in accordance with
the most recent rules and practices. Each submittal shall bear
the signature of the authorized person submitting it and shall
be approved as to form by the director. A bill, file,
resolution, or memorial is prefiled when written approval by the
sponsor is received by the legislative service office. Promptly
upon receipt of the draft of the bill or file, resolution or
memorial to be prefiled, the office shall:
(i) Cause each item to be placed in proper form with
the use of the automated bill-drafting system and printed in
sufficient quantity for use at the next session;
(ii) Maintain and deliver to the chief clerk of the
appropriate house of the legislature immediately after such
officer has been duly qualified, each item of proposed
legislation, prefiled bill, file, resolution or memorial;
(iii) Forward to each requesting legislator and
legislator-elect of the pending legislative session printed
copies of each item of prefiled legislation, resolution and
memorial so prefiled.
(c) The management council may negotiate with any
responsible publisher for revising, compiling, editing,
preparing, printing, publishing, selling and distributing any
designated revision, compilation, session laws, journals or
digests and may accept bids from such publishers and award
contracts for the preparation and printing of such publications,
to the bidder most nearly meeting the requirements of the
council.
(d) The legislative service office shall provide fiscal
notes for all proposed legislation having a fiscal impact,
indicating fiscal and personnel impact and revenue generated or
required by the proposed legislation, in such form and under
such conditions as specified by joint rule of the legislature.
Fiscal notes shall only quantify impact at the state level but
shall also reflect any changes to the total amount of revenue
distributed from the state to local governments under a
statutory formula. Fiscal notes shall be submitted to the
sponsor of the bill for review and approval prior to attachment
to the bill.