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Sponsored / Co-Sponsored Bills:
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Senate District 03: Senator Cheri Steinmetz
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Mon 1/16/2023
..Senator Steinmetz has sponsored the following senate files:
SF0103 Sales tax exemption-state legislators which allows state legislators on official business to be exempt from lodging tax. This file is designed to offset the need to increase legislative per diem in response to the increase in lodging tax.
SF0104 Property tax-mill levy adjustment which caps the property tax mill levy for counties, cities and school districts at the rate of the previous year plus inflation.
SF0105 Utilities-point of consumption and allocation agreements is a senate file designed to protect certificated service areas for public utilities and provide for a cooperative agreement process in order to keep rates stable and service reliable.
SF0137 Subdivisions-fencing requirements. – planning and zoning; requiring subdividers to construct and pay costs for perimeter fences as specified; specifying requirements for perimeter fences for subdivisions; specifying financial responsibility for maintaining perimeter fences; requiring the inclusion of perimeter fence information in subdivision permit applications; repealing conflicting provisions.
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SF0143 Wyoming freedom scholarship act-2. – creating the Wyoming Freedom Scholarship Act; authorizing education savings accounts; specifying legal proceedings; creating an account; providing for a transfer of funds to the account; providing for the use and administration of education savings accounts for education; providing powers and duties of the state treasurer; providing rulemaking authority; specifying that a qualified school is not an agent of the state or federal government; establishing an oversight committee; making conforming amendments; authorizing a temporary committee as specified; providing an appropriation.
…see details
SF0177 Specifying additional beneficial uses of water. – Promoting obscenity-educational exception repeal. – relating to crimes and offenses; repealing an educational and library exception to the offense of promoting obscenity.
…see details
..January 10, 2023
Senator Steinmetz has sponsored the following senate files:
SF0103 Sales tax exemption-state legislators which allows state legislators on official business to be exempt from lodging tax. This file is designed to offset the need to increase legislative per diem in response to the increase in lodging tax.
SF0104 Property tax-mill levy adjustment which caps the property tax mill levy for counties, cities and school districts at the rate of the previous year plus inflation.
SF0105 Utilities-point of consumption and allocation agreements is a senate file designed to protect certificated service areas for public utilities and provide for a cooperative agreement process in order to keep rates stable and service reliable.
…see details
SF0137 Subdivisions-fencing requirements. – planning and zoning; requiring subdividers to construct and pay costs for perimeter fences as specified; specifying requirements for perimeter fences for subdivisions; specifying financial responsibility for maintaining perimeter fences; requiring the inclusion of perimeter fence information in subdivision permit applications; repealing conflicting provisions.
…see details
SF0143 Wyoming freedom scholarship act-2. – creating the Wyoming Freedom Scholarship Act; authorizing education savings accounts; specifying legal proceedings; creating an account; providing for a transfer of funds to the account; providing for the use and administration of education savings accounts for education; providing powers and duties of the state treasurer; providing rulemaking authority; specifying that a qualified school is not an agent of the state or federal government; establishing an oversight committee; making conforming amendments; authorizing a temporary committee as specified; providing an appropriation.
…see details
SF0177 Specifying additional beneficial uses of water. – Promoting obscenity-educational exception repeal. – relating to crimes and offenses; repealing an educational and library exception to the offense of promoting obscenity.
…see detailstails
Lingle-Fort Laramie High School Student Council and their sponsor Erin Estes – the workings of the legislature and policy issues.
