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HB0170 • 2025

Nonprofit and trust entities-effective time for documents.

AN ACT relating to corporations, partnerships and associations; amending the time in which documents filed for nonprofit corporations and statutory trusts may be effective; and providing for an effective date.

Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor
Representative Lawley
Last action
2025-02-10
Official status
inactive
Effective date
3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on endorsements by the Secretary of State or broader updates to corporation-related laws beyond nonprofits and statutory trusts.

Changing When Nonprofit Documents Take Effect

The bill changes the date when documents for nonprofit corporations and statutory trusts become official from the day they are received to the day they are filed.

What This Bill Does

  • Changes the law so that documents for nonprofits and certain trusts take effect on the filing date, not the receipt date.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Nonprofit organizations
  • Statutory trusts

Terms To Know

Effective Date
The date when a document or law starts to work officially.
Filing
When someone submits a document for official record keeping.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill did not pass and will not become law.
  • It does not specify what happens if the filing date is different from the receipt date.

Bill History

  1. 2025-02-10 House

    H COW:H Did not consider for COW

  2. 2025-02-03 House

    H Placed on General File

  3. 2025-02-03 House

    H07 - Corporations:Recommend Do Pass 8-0-1-0-0

  4. 2025-01-27 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H07 - Corporations

  5. 2025-01-14 House

    H Received for Introduction

  6. 2025-01-13 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0656
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0656
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0170

Nonprofit and trust entities-effective time for documents.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Lawley, Byron, Filer and Larson, JT and Senator(s) Brennan, Cooper, Crago, Crum, Nethercott and Olsen

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to corporations, partnerships and associations; amending the time in which documents filed for nonprofit corporations and statutory trusts may be effective; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1
.

W.S. 17
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19
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123(a)(intro) and (i) and 17
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23
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118(a)(i) are amended to read:

17
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19
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123.

Effective date of document.

(a)

Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section
and W.S. 17
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19
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124(c)
, a document
accepted for filing under W.S. 17
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19
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120
is effective:

(i)

At the time
of
received for
filing
,

on the date it is filed,
as evidenced by the secretary of state's endorsement on the original document; or

17
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23
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118.

Effective time and date of document.

(a)

Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a document accepted for filing is effective:

(i)

At the time
of
received for
filing
,

on the date it is filed,
as evidenced by the secretary of state's date and time endorsement on the original document; or

Section 2
.

This act is effective July 1, 2025
.

(END)

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