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Read. Follow. Verify.Wyoming bill proposes moving public funds audit division under the legislature by 2027
Last action · February 9, 2026: S Failed Introduction 10-21-0-0-0Sponsor: Mgt Audit
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What This Bill Proposed
AN ACT relating to the administration of government; requiring a plan to reorganize the public funds division of the department of audit under the legislature; specifying elements of the plan; requiring reports; requiring legislative approval; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.
The measure shifts oversight authority of public funds audits from an executive-branch department to the legislature, altering where state audit personnel, equipment, and appropriations are housed.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Department of Audit
Loses the public funds division and its associated personnel, equipment, and appropriations to the legislature.
Legislative Service Office
Tasked with jointly preparing the reorganization plan and potentially absorbing administrative or oversight functions.
Key Facts
- The public funds division of the state department of audit and all related functions are scheduled for transfer to the legislature not later than July 1, 2027, subject to legislative approval.
- The director of the department of audit and the director of the legislative service office must jointly prepare a Type 2 transfer plan for the reorganization.
- The reorganization plan must be submitted to the governor, management council, and the management audit committee no later than July 1, 2026.
- The management council and the management audit committee must each hold at least one public hearing on the reorganization plan before the 2027 general session.
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- The plan must provide for the transfer of all personnel, supplies, equipment, and appropriations of the public funds division to a legislative office of audit or similar entity.
- Existing rules, regulations, contracts, and obligations of the department of audit remain unaffected and in effect until amended or repealed by the management council following legislative approval.
- Unless otherwise directed in an approved plan, the duties, powers, and functions of the department of audit remain unchanged until July 1, 2027.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Failed in the Senate.
Procedural history
3 actions- Feb 9, 2026SenateS Failed Introduction 10-21-0-0-0
- Feb 5, 2026SenateS Received for Introduction
- Jan 31, 2026Bill Number Assigned
Version history
Only one version on file - nothing to compare yet. As later stages (committee substitute, engrossed, enrolled) are captured, the redline appears here.
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Sources
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 45)
- Controversy40Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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