Legislative
2012 Wyoming Legislative Budget Session
The Wyoming Legislature will convene on February 13, 2012 for a twenty day Budget Session. Non-budget bills require a 2/3 majority vote for introduction. Pre-filed bills will begin to be publicly available in December, 2011. Check back for updates.
Joint Revenue Interim Committee Hearing
The Joint Revenue Interim Committee will be meeting May 12 and 13th in Saratoga WY. They will be addressing Wyoming’s overall tax policy and how it affects economic development. They will also be discussing the wind energy taxation issue.
Joint Revenue Committee Hearing November 18 and 19, 2009
The Joint Interim Revenue Committee met in Cheyenne November 18 and 19th to discuss interim topics. Several tax bills were considered with only a few garnering enough support to be forwarded to the 2010 Budget Session as a Committee sponsored … Continue reading
The Legislative Task Force on Wind Energy
The Legislative Task Force on Wind Energy met in Casper on May 27 for its first hearing. The topic before the Task Force was the power of condemnation for collector lines for wind projects. The next hearing for the Legislative … Continue reading
The Joint Revenue Committee will be meeting June 30 and July 1 for their Interim Study on Wind Taxation
The 2010 Legislature passed a $1/MWH excise tax that will go into effect in 2012 for wind projects in operation for 3 years. The bill was passed as a placeholder to allow the Joint Revenue Committee to consider the overall … Continue reading
Legislative Task Force on Wind Oct. 12 Hearing
LEGISLATIVE TASK FORCE HEARING OCTOBER 12, 2009 CASPER 1. Department of Revenue presentation on Sales Tax Exemption Attorney General opinion: permits and landowner agreements must be in place prior to Dec. 31, 2011 to qualify for sales tax exemption Task … Continue reading
Corporations Committee
The Joint Interim Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee met in Saratoga August 27 and 28. The Joint Corporations Committee spent the morning getting reports from Commissioner Oxley principally on recent activities regarding regulation of wind energy and multistate discussions … Continue reading
Legislative Task Force on Wind Aug. 26 and 27
The Task Force on Wind met August 26 & 27 in Casper. After two days of extensive presentations by government, industry, landowner, environmental and citizen stakeholders the task force, through its legislative members, asked the Legislative Service Office (LSO) (www.legisweb.state.wy.us) … Continue reading