ORIGINAL SENATE

FILE NO. 0053

ENROLLED ACT NO. 55, SENATE

FIFTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING

2001 GENERAL SESSION

AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; providing
expenditures from the workforce development training may be
made without the advice of the Wyoming business council;
providing for notification of expenditures; providing for a
reduction in the base rate for 2002; providing an
appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1. W.S. 27-3-210(c) and 27-3-503(b) are
amended to read:

27-3-210. Workforce development training fund
established.

(c) Expenditures from the workforce development
training fund for purposes authorized in paragraphs (b)(i)
and (ii) of this section shall be approved by the director
of the department of employment. Expenditures from the
workforce development training fund for purposes authorized
in paragraphs (b)(iii) and (iv) of this section shall be
approved by the director of the department of employment
with the advice of the Wyoming business council based on
procedures, criteria and performance measures established
by regulations. Notification of expenditures approved under
paragraphs (b)(iii) and (iv) of this section and a copy of
the training fund application shall be provided to the
Wyoming business council. The director of the department of
employment shall report annually to the governor and the
legislature on the expenditures made from the training fund
in the preceding fiscal year and the results of the
activities funded by the training fund.

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27-3-503. Payment; base rate; failure to pay; rate
variations; benefit ratio; new employer rate; special
reserve rate.

(b) Except as otherwise provided by law, the base
rate of contributions assigned to any employer is eight and
one-half percent (8.5%) for 1988 and each calendar year
thereafter subject to rate variations under subsections (d)
and (f) of this section in addition to a special reserve
contribution rate assigned under subsection (g) of the this
section and the adjustment factors computed under W.S.
27-3-505. For calendar year 2002, the base rate assigned to
any employer under this subsection or any variation
assigned under subsection (d) of this section shall be
reduced by thirty percent (30%). The base rate assigned to
any employer under this subsection or any rate variation
assigned under subsections (d) or (f) of this section shall
be reduced by twenty percent (20%) for any calendar year in
which a special reserve contribution rate is imposed under
subsection (g) of this section. Except as hereafter
provided, a contributing employer failing to pay all
contributions, interest and penalties or to submit all
quarterly contribution reports due on his account or any
account assumed under W.S. 27-3-507 on or before September
30 preceding the effective date of his assigned rate shall
be assigned a delinquent rate which shall include a two
percent (2%) tax rate increase in his base rate and shall
also include in addition thereto the adjustment factors for
the next calendar year beginning January 1. The delinquent
rate shall not exceed the maximum assignable rate. The
delinquent rate shall continue to be assigned through and
including the calendar quarter in which the delinquent
employer satisfies his delinquent account by submitting all
payments and contribution reports due. Upon satisfaction of
the delinquent account, the contributing employer shall be
assigned the contribution rate otherwise applicable under

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this article beginning the next full calendar quarter.
Provided however, that a delinquent employer shall pay an
assigned delinquent rate for at least the first quarter
even if the account is satisfied before January 1 of the
new calendar year.

Section 2. There is appropriated from the general
fund three million dollars ($3,000,000.00) to the Wyoming
workforce development training fund created under W.S.
27-3-210.

Section 3.  This act is effective January 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 Senate.

Chief Clerk

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