HB0024 - Prepaid legal services-payroll check-off.

 

2001

State of Wyoming

01LSO-0199

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL NO.  HB0024

 

 

Prepaid legal services-payroll check-off.

 

Sponsored by:

 

 

A BILL

 

for

 

 1  AN ACT relating to payroll check-off programs; including
 2  prepaid legal service plans in authorized payroll check-off
 3  programs of the state auditor and other specified payroll
 4  officers; and providing for an effective date.

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

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 8         Section 1.  W.S. 9-3-101(e) is amended to read:

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10         9-3-101.  Salaries; amount; date of payment.

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12         (e)  The state auditor and payroll officers for
13  employees of the department of transportation, the
14  University of Wyoming and community colleges may establish
15  payroll check-off programs for state employees under which
16  payments to third-parties are made directly from deductions
17  from state employee payroll payments for prepaid legal

 

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 1  service plans, supplemental medical plans, disability
 2  plans, life insurance plans and annuities.  The state
 3  auditor  and other payroll officers authorized to establish
 4  a payroll check-off program may impose an initial fee of up
 5  to one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500.00) for each
 6  deduction filed upon a third-party for which check-off
 7  payments are established and thereafter, may impose an
 8  annual fee of two dollars ($2.00) per enrolled employee. 
 9  The state auditor and other payroll officers authorized to
10  establish a payroll check-off program may establish rules
11  and regulations to implement the program.

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13         Section 2.  This act is effective July 1, 2001.

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15                         (END)

 

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