8-1-102(a)(xxii).

8-1-102(a)(xxii).

(e) Any recipient of a loan under this section who fails:

(i) To complete the program for which the loan was provided shall commence cash repayment of the loan no later than forty-five (45) days after the recipient leaves the academic program;

(ii) To obtain employment in the targeted occupation for which the person received the education within ninety (90) days after successfully obtaining the appropriate licensure, shall commence cash repayment of the loan within one hundred twenty (120) days after successfully obtaining the appropriate licensure; or

(iii) To obtain the appropriate certification within one hundred eighty (180) days after completion of the program shall commence cash repayment of the loan.

(f) Any amounts paid by students in accordance with the contractual arrangements authorized under this section shall be deposited into a special account designated as the accelerated baccalaureate degree in nursing student account, maintained and separately accounted for by the University of Wyoming, which account shall be used solely for payments on behalf of students under subsection (b) of this section. On or before October 1 of each year, the university shall submit a report to the joint labor, health and social services interim committee on expenditures from the account during the prior fiscal year.

21-17-123. Program for certification of behavioral specialists.

The community college commission shall cooperate with the department of health and the University of Wyoming to develop a course of training and education in the field of professional health services for behavioral specialists with an emphasis in the care of persons dually diagnosed with an intellectual disability and a mental disorder. The course may be offered at the University of Wyoming or one (1) or more community colleges, or both, in collaboration. The program shall be designed to lead to certification as a behavioral health specialist pursuant to W.S. 42-4-120(j) and rules and regulations of the department of health. Certification may also be granted to behavioral specialists who have completed another training program that meets training standards established by the department and who pass a competency evaluation under direction of the department.

21-17-124. Student electronic writings and other electronic communications; expectation of privacy.

(a) No ownership rights to any electronic writing or other electronic communication created by a student shall be conveyed, transferred or otherwise affected solely as a result of the writing or other communication being stored on an electronic device paid for in whole or in part by the university or transmitted or stored on the university's network.

(b) Students at the university shall have an expectation of privacy in the electronic writings and other electronic communications created by the student regardless of whether the writing or other communication is stored on an electronic device paid for in whole or in part by the university or transmitted or stored on the university's network. The university shall not require a student to waive or limit the student's expectation of privacy specified under this subsection. This subsection shall not apply to writings or other communications:

(i) Publicly disclosed, released or conveyed by the student or otherwise made available for observation by the student in such a manner that a person would not reasonably expect the writing or other communication would remain undisclosed to others;

(ii) Accessed by the university in cases where there is a technological requirement to support and maintain the university's electronic device or network. Writings or other communications viewed during the technological support or maintenance of the electronic device or network shall be limited to only those writings or other communications required to address the specific technical issue and shall not be used or distributed to any other person or entity unless otherwise mandated by federal or state law.  (c) The property rights and expectation of privacy provided in subsections (a) and (b) of this section do not apply to a writing or other communication created by a student who is simultaneously employed by and enrolled at the university if the writing or other communication is created when the person is acting in an official capacity as an employee of the university. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to diminish the property rights or expectation of privacy of persons acting in the capacity of an employee of the university.

(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to:

(i) Impose, by operation of law, or require the university to accept or prohibit the university from accepting any liability or responsibility for collecting, maintaining, storing or otherwise recording writings and other communications created by a student;

(ii) Require the university to establish or prohibit the university from establishing standards on the retention and destruction of student writings and other communications.

(e) For purposes of this section, "student" means any person currently enrolled full time or part time at the university.

21-17-125. Family medicine resident program education and clinical training; contract for clinical operation; use of University of Wyoming residents, students and faculty.

(a) Whenever the board of trustees deems it in the best interests of the university they may enter into one (1) or more contracts with any person, group, association or corporation for the operation of the family medicine residency program and related functions. As consideration for the operation of the clinical and related functions the contract may provide for:

(i) The lease of appropriate University of Wyoming facilities and equipment;

(ii) The services of university employees;

(iii) A payment from the university; and

(iv) Funding, supplies and equipment.  (b) If the board of trustees deems it in the best interests of the university to enter into one (1) or more contracts for the clinical operations of the family medicine residency program, the university shall ensure that the contract requires:

(i) Provision of a clinic for the university's family medicine residency program as provided by this section;

(ii) To the extent feasible, attainment and maintaining of qualification as a federally qualified health center and performance of the duties required of a federally qualified health center;

(iii) Operation of the clinic in a manner required by the accreditation council for graduate medical education, and if deficiencies in operation are identified, development and implementation of a plan to remedy the deficiencies, which plan shall be developed with the participation and approval of the university;

(iv) As specified in the contract, reimbursement to the university for the services of University of Wyoming faculty, physician residents, staff and any students who function as clinic medical staff or other staff or who otherwise provide services to the entity with whom the university has contracted. The contract may contain provisions to ensure that this reimbursement does not endanger the clinic's financial solvency;

(v) Furnishing the university with semiannual reports showing the financial condition of the clinic and providing an accounting of all monies received and expended. The reports shall satisfy accounting standards specified in the contract and shall provide a level of detail specified in the contract, but which is designed to allow public release of the reports without violating the privacy of any patient;

(vi) Payment to the university of a percentage of the net revenues derived from operation of all family medicine residency program clinics. The contract may specify:

(A) An allowance for depreciation and improvement of equipment to be deducted from gross revenue before calculating net revenue;  (B) That any equipment purchased pursuant to this provision shall be:

(I) The property of the university; and

(II) Included in the facilities leased to the operator pursuant to this section.

(vii) Upon completion or nonrenewal of the contract, return to the university of any funding, supplies, equipment and patient records received from the university to the extent and in the form possible as specified in the contract.

(c) The university may enter into separate contracts for separate facilities, and these contracts may be with multiple entities. The university may enter into separate contracts with other entities to furnish additional training opportunities for family medicine residency program physician residents and other students.

(d) The University of Wyoming family medicine residency program shall include within the university's biennial budget request submitted under W.S. 9-2-1013 a report specifying at a minimum:

(i) The financial condition of the clinic and all monies received and expended;

(ii) Patient demographics;

(iii) Physician resident data;

(iv) Federally qualified health center compliance; and

(v) Quality metrics.

21-17-126. University water system.

(a) Subject to title 41 of the Wyoming statutes and notwithstanding any municipal or county ordinance, the University of Wyoming may:

(i) Develop, drill, construct, operate, maintain and use any water line, system, well or works on property owned by the university for the purposes of distributing, providing and using nonpotable water on property owned or leased by the university for miscellaneous use where water is to be used for landscape watering, lawns, athletic fields, trees, shrubs and flowers;

(ii) Connect a building, facility, landscape, lot, premises or structure owned by the university to any water line, system, well or works operated, maintained or used by the university.

(b) No city or county shall restrict or prohibit the university from developing, drilling, constructing, operating, maintaining or using any water system independent of the city's or county's water system.

ARTICLE 2 - BOARD OF TRUSTEES

21-17-201. Composition; appointment and qualifications of members generally; members ex officio; quorum.

The government of the university is vested in a board of twelve (12) trustees appointed by the governor, no two (2) of whom may be residents of the same county of the state. At least one (1) trustee shall be appointed from each appointment district pursuant to W.S. 9-1-218. Not more than seventy-five percent (75%) of the members of the board shall be registered in the same political party. The governor, the president of the university, the state superintendent of public instruction and the president of the associated students of the university are members ex officio, having the right to speak, but not to vote. A majority of the board is a quorum.

21-17-202. Term; appointment of additional trustees; appointment of successors; vacancies; members of faculty disqualified; removal.

(a) The term of office of the trustees appointed is six (6) years. During each session of the legislature, the governor shall nominate, and with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint successors to those trustees whose term of office has expired or will expire before the next session of the legislature. Any vacancy in the board of trustees caused by death, resignation, removal from the state or otherwise, shall be filled by appointment by the governor as provided in W.S.