HB0142 - Seed laboratory.

 

2001

State of Wyoming

01LSO-0181.E1 ENGROSSED

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL NO.  HB0142

 

 

Seed laboratory.

 

Sponsored by:  Representative(s) Jones, Anderson, R.,
Baker, Childers, Eyre, Hessenthaler,
Shivler, Simons, Simpson, Willford and
Wostenberg and Senator(s) Coe, Geis, Meier
and Miller, C.

 

 

A BILL

 

for

 

 1  AN ACT relating to agriculture and animals; providing for
 2  the location and name of the seed analysis laboratory as
 3  specified; providing appropriations; providing for
 4  personnel; requiring a report; and providing for an
 5  effective date.

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 7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

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 9         Section 1.  W.S. 11-12-115 is amended to read:

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11         11-12-115.  State seed analyst; seed laboratory.

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13         (a)  The state seed analyst shall be selected by the
14  board. The analyst shall receive a salary fixed by the
15  human resources division of the department of

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 1  administration and information, paid by the state from an
 2  appropriation for that purpose.

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 4         (b)  Any state laboratory operated for the purposes of
 5  seed analysis shall be located in Park County and shall be
 6  known as the Denny J. Smith Memorial Seed Analysis
 7  Laboratory.

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 9         Section 2.

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11         (a)  There is appropriated two hundred fifty thousand
12  dollars ($250,000.00) from the statutory reserve account to
13  the department of agriculture for the purposes of placement
14  of the laboratory in Park County or any costs associated
15  therewith as provided by this act.

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17         (b)  There is appropriated one hundred fifty-two
18  thousand five hundred dollars ($152,500.00) from the
19  general fund to the department of agriculture for the
20  purposes of operation of the laboratory. The department of
21  agriculture is authorized to contract with the University
22  of Wyoming for personnel to operate the laboratory.

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 1         Section 3.  The department of agriculture shall
 2  provide a report detailing the activities and the overall
 3  effectiveness of the laboratory to the governor and the
 4  members of the joint agriculture, public lands and water
 5  resources interim committee on or before December 31, 2004.

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 7         Section 4.  This act is effective immediately upon
 8  completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law
 9  as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming
10  Constitution.

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12                         (END)

 

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