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INTRODUCTION
HOUSE BILL NO. [BILL NUMBER]
Executive orders repository.
Sponsored by: Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Interim Committee
A BILL
for
1 AN ACT relating to the administration of the government;
2 providing a process for publishing and maintaining
3 executive orders; requiring previously issued executive
4 orders be published and maintained on the secretary of
5 state website; and providing for an effective date.
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7 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
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9 Section 1. W.S. 9-1-302(a)(ii) and 9-1-303(d) by
10 creating a new paragraph (iii) are amended to read:
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1 9-1-302. Powers and duties; custodian of public
2 records; preservation of executive orders and proclamations
3 of governor; removal of public documents prohibited;
4 exceptions.
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6 (a) The secretary of state is the custodian of, and
7 shall preserve:
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9 (ii) All executive orders issued by a governor,
10 proclamations of the governor proclaiming the effectiveness
11 of constitutional amendments, corporate revocations and any
12 other proclamation designated as a permanent record by the
13 governor. The secretary of state shall preserve all other
14 proclamations of the governor for one (1) year and then
15 deliver them to the department of state parks and cultural
16 resources for destruction or preservation as it deems
17 desirable;
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19 9-1-303. Powers and duties; affixing seal to and
20 countersigning commissions and documents; certified copies
21 of acts; file of commissions and appointments; publication
22 of documents.
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1 (d) The secretary of state shall make the following
2 documents available to the public by publishing the
3 documents on the secretary of state's official website:
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5 (iii) All executive orders issued by a governor.
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9 STAFF COMMENT
10 The Committee may wish to consider whether it would like to
11 define "executive order" as that term is not currently
12 defined in the Wyoming Statutes or the Wyoming
13 Constitution.
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15 Additionally, the Committee may wish to consider whether it
16 would like to require the Secretary of State to publish
17 "proclamations of the governor proclaiming the
18 effectiveness of constitutional amendments, corporate
19 revocations and any other proclamation designated as a
20 permanent record by the governor" online.
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24 Section 2. Any executive order previously issued by a
25 Wyoming governor prior to the effective date of this act
26 that can be reasonably located shall be published on the
27 secretary of state's official website as soon as reasonably
28 practicable in accordance with this act. The requirements
29 of this section shall include executive orders that have
30 expired.
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1 Section 3. This act is effective July 1, 2025.
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Statutes affected:
Draft 25LSO-0009: 9-1-302, 9-1-303