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2006 Budget Session
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HJ 4 would submit a proposal to Wyoming voters to amend the Wyoming Constitution. The proposed constitutional amendment would clarify that all monies deposited into the Permanent Wyoming Mineral Trust Fund (WPMTF) are inviolate.
This proposed constitutional amendment would appear on the 2006 general election ballot, and would have to be approved by a majority of voters who vote in that election to be adopted.
Under the Wyoming Constitution, the first one and one-half percent of mineral severance taxes collected by the state automatically flow into the WPMTF. The Constitution states that these monies are inviolate, and only the interest generated by the account may be spent by the Legislature, but the corpus of the account may never be used. In some years, when the state has high revenue from mineral production (such as we are presently experiencing), the Legislature chooses to deposit more money into the WPMTF in addition to the amount that automatically goes into the account.
Legislators have always assumed that all money deposited into the WPMTF was inviolate, regardless of whether it was the constitutionally mandated deposits or extra deposits made by the Legislature. But the current Wyoming Attorney General recently opined that this might not be so, and that extra legislated deposits might not, in fact, be inviolate, so that some future Legislature might be able to withdraw those funds for some purpose.
So, HJ 4 would close this possible loophole. Supporters wanted to be sure that the entire corpus of the WPMTF remained inviolate in perpetuity.
Opposition was minimal.
The House passed HJ 4, 56-1 (3 excused), and the Senate passed the bill, 28-2. The votes listed below are House and Senate third reading (final passage) votes. A YES vote means the legislator supported a constitutional amendment that would clarify that all money that is deposited into the WPMTF is inviolate. A NO vote means the legislator did not support such a constitutional amendment.
| Bighorn Basin Legislators | House 3rd 2/17/06 | Senate 3rd 3/3/06 |
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| S 18 | Hank Coe (R) | No | |
| H 24 | Colin Simpson (R) | Yes | |
| H 50 | Pat Childers (R) | Yes | |
| S 19 | Ray Peterson (R) | Yes | |
| H 25 | Alan Jones (R) | Yes | |
| H 26 | Elaine Harvey (R) | Yes | |
| S 20 | Gerald E. Geis (R) | Yes | |
| H 27 | Debbie Hammons (D) | Yes | |
| H 28 | Lorraine Quarberg (R) | Yes | |
| Casper-Area Legislators | House 3rd 2/17/06 | Senate 3rd 3/3/06 |
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| S 27 | John Barrasso (R) | Yes | |
| H 35 | Roy Cohee (R) | Yes | |
| H 36 | Gerald Gay (R) | Yes | |
| S 28 | Kit Jennings (R) | Yes | |
| H 56 | Tom Walsh (R) | Yes | |
| H 57 | Thomas A. Lockhart (R) | Yes | |
| S 29 | Bill Hawks (R) | Yes | |
| H 37 | Steve Harshman (R) | Yes | |
| H 59 | Mary Gilmore (D) | Yes | |
| S 30 | Charles K. Scott (R) | Yes | |
| H 38 | Bob Brechtel (R) | Yes | |
| H 58 | Ann Robinson (D) | No | |
| Cheyenne-Area Legislators | House 3rd 2/17/06 | Senate 3rd 3/3/06 |
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| S 4 | Tony Ross (R) | Yes | |
| H 7 | Doug Samuelson (R) | Yes | |
| H 41 | Becket Hinckley (R) | Yes | |
| S 5 | John Hanes (R) | Yes | |
| H 8 | Larry Meuli (R) | Yes | |
| H 42 | Pete Illoway (R) | Yes | |
| S 6 | Wayne H. Johnson (R) | Yes | |
| H 9 | Bryan Pedersen (R) | Yes | |
| H 10 | Rodney "Pete" Anderson (R) | Yes | |
| S 7 | Kathryn Sessions (D) | Yes | |
| H 11 | Wayne Reese (D) | Yes | |
| H 43 | Dan Zwonitzer (R) | Yes | |
| S 8 | E. Jayne Mockler (D) | No | |
| H 12 | Layton Morgan (D) | Yes | |
| H 44 | Floyd Esquibel (D) | Yes | |
| Gillette-Area Legislators | House 3rd 2/17/06 | Senate 3rd 3/3/06 |
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| S 23 | John Hines (R) | Yes | |
| H 31 | Thomas E. Lubnau II (R) | Yes | |
| H 52 | Burke Jackson (R) | Excused | |
| S 24 | Michael Von Flatern (R) | Yes | |
| H 32 | Jeff Wasserburger (R) | Yes | |
| H 53 | Erin Mercer (R) | Yes | |
| Lander/Riverton-Area Legislators | House 3rd 2/17/06 | Senate 3rd 3/3/06 |
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| S 25 | Cale Case (R) | Yes | |
| H 33 | W. Patrick Goggles (D) | Yes | |
| H 54 | Del McOmie (R) | Yes | |
| S 26 | Robert A. Peck (R) | Yes | |
| H 34 | Frank Philp (R) | Yes | |
| H 55 | David Miller (R) | Yes | |
| Northeast/East Central WY Legislators | House 3rd 2/17/06 | Senate 3rd 3/3/06 |
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| S 1 | C.L. Townsend (R) | Yes | |
| H 1 | Mark Semlek (R) | Yes | |
| H 2 | Ross Diercks (D) | Yes | |
| S 2 | Jim Anderson (R) | Yes | |
| H 5 | James C. Hageman (R) | Yes | |
| H 6 | Dave Edwards (R) | Yes | |
| S 3 | Curt Meier (R) | Yes | |
| H 3 | Deborah Alden (R) | Yes | |
| H 4 | Edward A. Buchanan (R) | Yes | |
| Sheridan-Area Legislators | House 3rd 2/17/06 | Senate 3rd 3/3/06 |
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| S 21 | Bruce Burns (R) | Yes | |
| H 29 | Jerry Iekel (R) | Yes | |
| H 51 | Rosie Berger (R) | Yes | |
| S 22 | John Schiffer (R) | Yes | |
| H 30 | Jack Landon (R) | Yes | |
| H 40 | Doug Osborn (R) | Yes | |
| South Central WY Legislators | House 3rd 2/17/06 | Senate 3rd 3/3/06 |
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| S 9 | Mike Massie (D) | Yes | |
| H 13 | Jane Warren (D) | Yes | |
| H 45 | Kevin A. White (R) | Yes | |
| S 10 | Phil Nicholas (R) | Yes | |
| H 14 | Kermit C. Brown (R) | Yes | |
| H 46 | James Slater (R) | Yes | |
| S 11 | Bill Vasey (D) | Yes | |
| H 15 | George Bagby (D) | Yes | |
| H 47 | Kurt Bucholz (R) | Yes | |
| Southwest WY Legislators | House 3rd 2/17/06 | Senate 3rd 3/3/06 |
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| S 12 | Rae Lynn Job (D) | Yes | |
| H 48 | Marty Martin (D) | Yes | |
| H 16 | Pete Jorgensen (D) | Yes | |
| S 13 | Tex Boggs (D) | Yes | |
| H 17 | Stephen Watt (R) | Excused | |
| H 60 | Bill Thompson (D) | Yes | |
| S 14 | Stan Cooper (R) | Yes | |
| H 18 | Mick Powers (R) | Yes | |
| H 39 | John Hastert (D) | Yes | |
| S 15 | Ken Decaria (D) | Yes | |
| H 19 | Owen Petersen (R) | Yes | |
| H 49 | Bruce Barnard (R) | Excused | |
| West Central WY Legislators | House 3rd 2/17/06 | Senate 3rd 3/3/06 |
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| S 16 | Pat Aullman (R) | Yes | |
| H 20 | Kathy Davison (R) | Yes | |
| H 21 | Randall Luthi (R) | Yes | |
| S 17 | Grant Larson (R) | Yes | |
| H 22 | Monte Olsen (R) | Yes | |
| H 23 | Keith Gingery (R) | Yes | |
See Southwest Region for H 16 and S 12 | |||