HB0001H3099

This amendment deletes a prior lien-related amendment, adds employee compensation and retirement payment provisions, modifies severance tax distributions, and updates the bill's description to reference retirement payments.

• Deletes the entire third reading amendment HB0001H3084/A (the Lien amendment). (Page 1, lines 1-2)
• Updates the bill's summary to add language indicating the bill provides a one-time retirement payment. (Page 1, lines 4-5)
• Creates Section 328 establishing a $111,789,670 appropriation from the general fund to the state auditor for salary adjustments of generally funded employees for fiscal years 2026-2028. The appropriation is distributed among executive branch agencies, statewide elected officials, the Wyoming Business Council, the Commission on Judicial Conduct and Ethics, the Wyoming Energy Authority, the University of Wyoming, University of Wyoming enhanced oil recovery employees, community colleges, Wyoming Public Television, and the Supreme and district courts. Salary adjustments are to be distributed according to occupational market analysis. Comparable increases are required for employees funded by non-general fund sources to the extent funds are available. (Page 141, lines 7-40; Page 142, lines 1-43)
• Creates Section 329 providing a one-time 1% payment on July 1, 2026 to eligible retirees receiving service pensions or other retirement benefits under Wyoming retirement plans, limited to those who began receiving benefits before July 1, 2024. Appropriates $8,031,763 from the general fund to the Wyoming Retirement System Board, with funds allocated proportionally to each plan and any shortfall addressed by proportionate reductions. The payment is non-ongoing and does not affect future benefits. Defines retirement plans to include all plans administered by the Wyoming Retirement Board except the paid firemen plan A. (Page 142, lines 7-22; Page 143, lines 1-21)
• Amends W.S. 39-14-801(b)(v) to modify severance tax distribution by changing the deposit of two-thirds of certain severance taxes collected for fiscal years 2027 and 2028 from split deposits to the permanent Wyoming mineral trust fund and common school account to deposits split between the permanent Wyoming mineral trust fund and the general fund. (Page 143, lines 25-41)

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