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SF0052 • 2005

Business entities-electronic filings.

AN ACT relating to business entities; authorizing specified business entities to electronically file annual reports with the secretary of state; granting rulemaking authority; providing a penalty; and providing for an effective date.

Elections
Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Corporations
Last action
2005-02-24
Official status
enrolled
Effective date
2/24/2005

Plain English Breakdown

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Bill History

  1. 2005-02-24 LSO

    Assigned Chapter Number - 111

  2. 2005-02-24 Governor

    Governor Signed SEA0048

  3. 2005-02-22 House

    H Speaker Signed SEA No. 0048

  4. 2005-02-18 Senate

    S President Signed SEA No. 0048

  5. 2005-02-18 LSO

    Assigned Number SEA0048

  6. 2005-02-18 House

    H Passed 3rd Reading

  7. 2005-02-17 House

    H Passed 2nd Reading

  8. 2005-02-16 House

    H Passed CoW

  9. 2005-02-15 House

    H Placed on General File

  10. 2005-02-15 House

    H07 Recommended Do Pass

  11. 2005-02-04 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H07

  12. 2005-01-18 House

    H Received for Introduction

  13. 2005-01-18 Senate

    S Passed 3rd Reading

  14. 2005-01-17 Senate

    S Passed 2nd Reading

  15. 2005-01-14 Senate

    S Passed CoW

  16. 2005-01-13 Senate

    S Placed on General File

  17. 2005-01-13 Senate

    S07 Recommended Do Pass

  18. 2005-01-12 Senate

    S Introduced and Referred to S07

  19. 2005-01-10 Senate

    S Received for Introduction

  20. 2004-12-29 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Official Summary Text

2005 General Session Summary for SF0052

Bill
No.:
SF0052
Drafter:

DKG

LSO
No.:
05LSO-0486
Effective Date:

2/24/2005

Enrolled
Act No.:
SEA0048

Chapter
No.:
111

Prime Sponsor:
Joint Corporations, Elections
and Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

Catch
Title:
Business entities-electronic filings.

Subject:
Authorizes
business entities to make certain filings electronically.

Summary/Major
Elements:

Authorizes the secretary of state to adopt rules allowing business
entities which are required to file annual reports to do so electronically.

Authorizes the same for annual fees, and provides that those fees may be
paid by credit card, electronic transfer of funds or other means.

Provides a penalty of up to $1,000 and six months in jail for knowingly
filing a false report electronically.

Current Bill Text

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WORKING DRAFT

ORIGINAL SENATE

FILE

NO.
0052

ENROLLED ACT NO. 48, SENATE

FIFTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2005 GENERAL SESSION

AN ACT relating to business entities; authorizing specified business entities to electronically file annual reports with the secretary of state; granting rulemaking authority; providing a penalty; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.
W.S. 17
‑
27
‑
101 is created to read:

CHAPTER 27
ELECTRONIC ANNUAL REPORTS

17
‑
27
‑
101.

Electronic filing of annual reports authorized; rules; penalty.

(a)

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any entity required to file an annual report and pay an annual license fee under title 17 of the Wyoming statutes, may be authorized by rules of the secretary of state to file the annual report electronically and pay the annual license fee through credit card, electronic funds transfer or by other means. For each electronically transmitted annual report filed in the office of the secretary of state, the office shall assign a unique number to the filed report, create a record that bears the number assigned and the date and time of filing, and maintain the filed annual report for public inspection.

(b)

Any authorized person electronically submitting an annual report on behalf of an entity under this section which he knows, or should have known, is false in any material respect, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or both.

Section 2.
This act is effective immediately upon co
m
pletion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constit
u
tion.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.

Chief Clerk

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