SF0167 - School capital construction select committee.

 

2001

State of Wyoming

01LSO-0621

 

 

 

SENATE FILE NO.  SF0167

 

 

School capital construction select committee.

 

Sponsored by:  Senator(s) Cathcart, Coe, Kunz and Larson
and Representative(s) Luthi, McGraw, Parady,
Reese, Shivler and Tempest

 

 

A BILL

 

for

 

 1  AN ACT relating to school capital construction;
 2  establishing a select committee on capital construction as
 3  specified; prescribing duties; requiring a report;
 4  providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective
 5  date.

 6 

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

 8 

 9         Section 1.

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11         (a)  There is created the select committee on school
12  capital construction consisting of the following members:

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14              (i)  Five (5) members of the Wyoming senate
15  appointed by the president of the senate subject to the
16  following:

 

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 2                   (A)  Not more than two (2) of whom shall be
 3  members of the senate education committee;

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 5                   (B)  Not more than two (2) of whom shall be
 6  members of the senate appropriations committee; and

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 8                   (C)  Not more than three (3) of whom shall
 9  be from the same political party.

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11              (ii)  Five (5) members of the Wyoming house of
12  representatives appointed by the speaker of the house of
13  representatives subject to the following:

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15                   (A)  Not more than two (2) of whom shall be
16  members of the house education committee;

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18                   (B)  Not more than two (2) of whom shall be
19  members of the house appropriations committee; and

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21                   (C)  Not more than three (3) of whom shall
22  be from the same political party.

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 1         (b)  The president of the senate and the speaker of
 2  the house of representatives shall each appoint a
 3  cochairman of the select committee. The committee may
 4  contract with consultants as necessary. Staff services to
 5  the committee shall be provided by the legislative service
 6  office.

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 8         (c)  The select committee shall review the school
 9  capital construction program established under W.S.
10  21-15-105 through 21-15-112 and make recommendations to the
11  legislature on a revised program which may include:

12 

13              (i)  A three (3) phase process for consideration
14  of individual school district capital construction projects
15  that both address identified school building and facility
16  needs and require state assistance to complete required
17  construction, where:

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19                   (A)  Phase one (1) consists of a review of
20  the building or facility need as identified by the
21  statewide needs assessment pursuant to W.S. 21-15-107(b),
22  and the relationship of the proposed method to address the
23  building need to the scores contained within the needs
24  assessment;

 

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 2                   (B)  Phase two (2) consists of the
 3  development of planning and other schematic design
 4  documents and an independent professional review and
 5  analysis of the plans and documents, with recommendations
 6  available for purposes of subparagraph (i)(C) of this
 7  subsection;

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 9                   (C)  Phase three (3) consists of legislative
10  review of findings and recommendations developed under
11  subparagraph (i)(B) of the subsection and the development
12  of project funding, including future monitoring and
13  reporting of project development.

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15              (ii)  A process for the provision of emergency
16  assistance for district's experiencing bona fide emergency
17  building and facility needs, subject to legislative review;

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19              (iii)  Funding for school capital construction
20  needs.

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22         (d)  In addition to subsection (c) of this section,
23  the select committee shall address any matter resulting
24  from court decisions with respect to currently pending

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 1  cases regarding school capital construction which requires
 2  legislative action.

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 4         (e)  The select committee shall report to the
 5  legislature not later than February 1, 2002, on
 6  recommendations developed under subsections (c) and (d) of
 7  this section, together with necessary legislation
 8  implementing committee recommendations. The select
 9  committee may introduce legislation as other committees of
10  the legislature.

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12         (f)  Fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) is
13  appropriated from the general fund to the legislative
14  service office to implement this act. Expenditures shall be
15  made only with the approval of the select committee.

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17         Section 2.  This act is effective immediately upon
18  completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law
19  as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming
20  Constitution.

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22                         (END)

 

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