ORIGINAL HOUSE
BILL NO. 0238
ENROLLED ACT NO.
105, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FIFTY-SIXTH
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2001
GENERAL SESSION
AN ACT relating to boards of
cooperative educational
services;
modifying procedures for establishing boards as
specified; and
providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted
by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1. W.S. 21-20-104
is amended to read:
21-20-104. Board of cooperative
educational services;
generally.
(a) If two (2)
or more boards of trustees desire to
establish a board of
cooperative services for the purpose
of providing
cooperative educational services and if the
services can be
provided more effectively through a
cooperative effort, the president of two (2) or more boards
of trustees may call a
meeting of the interested boards. At
the
meeting, the boards of trustees of the interested
districts, a majority of whose
members respectively vote in
favor of doing so, may
enter into an agreement to form a
board of cooperative
educational services. The agreement
shall specify among
other things the length of term of the
agreement, the rights,
responsibilities and obligations of
each participating
district, the types of services to be
rendered, the
procedure for the establishment of additional
services and the
procedure for the inclusion of additional
districts within the
cooperative educational services
program. The agreement
shall also provide a method for the
amendment and
dissolution of the agreement with the consent
of each participating
district. Any agreement to form a
board of cooperative
educational services entered into
between the participating
districts shall be approved by
the state board of
education.
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(b) The presidents of the boards of trustees agreeing
to participate in the
board of cooperative educational
services shall agree upon and set a time and place of
meeting of the
of trustees for the purpose of electing members of the to a
board of cooperative
educational services. At the meeting,
the participating
boards of trustees may elect by secret
ballot from among the
members of the boards so assembled a
board of cooperative
educational services to
board shall be composed of not less
than five (5) nor more
than nine (9) members
unless there are more than nine (9)
districts
participating in which event each participating
district shall have
one (1) member. Each participating
board of trustees, regardless of its number of members, is
entitled to cast five
(5) votes in the selection of each of
the members of the
board of cooperative educational
services. Each board
of trustees party to the agreement
shall have at least
one (1) member on appointed to the
board of cooperative
educational services. The terms of
office of each of the
members of the board of cooperative
educational services
shall be coterminous with their
respective terms of
office upon their boards of trustees.
As the terms of office
expire, or as vacancies occur, new
members of the board
of cooperative educational services
shall be elected appointed
by the members board of trustees
of the participating boards of trustees at a joint meeting
called for that
purpose
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Section 2. This
act is effective July 1, 2001.
(END)
Speaker of
the House President of
the Senate
Governor
TIME APPROVED: _________
DATE APPROVED: _________
I hereby certify that this act originated in the
House.
Chief Clerk
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