HB0061

Summary for LSO115 Bill No.: HB0061 Effective : 7/1/2015 LSO No.: 15LSO-0093 Enrolled Act No.: HEA 55 Chapter No.: 84 Prime Sponsor: Joint Minerals, Business & Economic Development Interim Committee Catch Title: Wyoming Chartered Family Trust Company Act. Summary/Major Elements: This Act creates the Wyoming Chartered Family Trust Company Act. A “chartered family trust company” is a trust company, chartered with the Wyoming Banking Commissioner, whose membership is limited to certain specified relations, associates and affi liates of a “designated person.” A family trust company cannot conduct business with the general public. This Act allows a family trust company to conduct business in the State of Wyoming without chartering with the Banking Commissioner if the family trust company’s officers execute a waiver to the banking commissioner acknowledging the family trust company is not regulated under the Act and that its members are not afforded any of the protections or privileges of the Act. A chartered family trust company may organize as a corporation or as a limited liability company. Provides requirements for a chartered family trust company to operate in Wyoming, including adoption of an appropriate name for the company, maintenance of a physical office in the S tate and minimum capital requirements and the investment of that capital. Provides powers to a chartered family trust company, including the ability to act for or on behalf of a family member or family affiliate in certain specified circumstances. Provides for permissible financial transactions for a chartered family trust company to undertake. Provides powers to the commissioner to supervise and regulate chartered family trust companies. Comments: Creates the Wyoming Chartered Family Trust Company Act . The above summary is not an official publication of the Wyoming Legislature and is not an official statement of legislative intent. While the Legislative Service Office endeavored to provide accurate information in this summary, it should not be relied upon as a comprehensive abstract of the bill.