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ORIGINAL House
ENGROSSED
Bill No
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HB0043
ENROLLED ACT NO. 30,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SIXTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2026 Budget Session
AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; creating the offenses of money laundering and illegal investments; providing definitions; providing penalties; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1
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W.S. 6
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1101 through 6
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1103 are created to read:
ARTICLE 11
MONEY LAUNDERING AND ILLEGAL INVESTMENT
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1101.
Definitions.
(a)
As used in this article:
(i)
"Financial or business institution" includes a foreign or domestic money transmitter or an authorized agent thereof, casino, check casher, person engaged in a trade or business or any other person required by state or federal law to report regarding currency transactions or suspicious transactions.
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Money laundering; penalties.
(a)
A person is guilty of money laundering if the person:
(i)
Transports or possesses property the person knows or reasonably should know to be derived from criminal activity or represent proceeds of criminal activity;
(ii)
Directs, organizes, finances, plans, manages, supervises or controls the transportation of or transactions in property the person knows or reasonably should know to be derived from criminal activity or represent proceeds of criminal activity; or
(iii)
Engages in a transaction involving property the person knows or reasonably should know to be derived from criminal activity or represent proceeds of criminal activity:
(A)
With the intent to facilitate or promote the criminal activity; or
(B)
Knowing that the transaction is designed, in whole or in part:
(I)
To conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, ownership or control of the property derived from criminal activity; or
(II)
To avoid a transaction reporting requirement under the laws of this state, any other state or of the United States. For purposes of this subdivision, the transaction or transactions shall not be required to exceed any transaction reporting threshold under state or federal law at any single financial or business institution on any single day.
(b)
Money laundering is a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than ten (10) years, a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), or both.
(c)
This section shall not apply to a financial institution whose deposits are insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation or the national credit union share insurance fund or to its employees with respect to transactions for depositors or borrowers unless an employee conducts those transactions with the intent to do one (1) or more of the following:
(i)
To facilitate or promote criminal activity;
(ii)
To conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, ownership or control of property derived from criminal activity;
(iii)
To avoid a transaction reporting requirement under the laws of Wyoming, the United States or another state.
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Illegal investment; penalties.
(a)
A person is guilty of illegal investment if, with the intent to evade a transaction reporting requirement of this state or of 31 U.S.C. §
5311 et seq. or 31 C.F.R. § 1010.100 et seq., or any rules or regulations adopted under those chapters and sections, the person:
(i)
Causes a financial or business institution to fail to report or to file a report that contains a material omission or misstatement of fact; or
(ii)
Structures or assists in structuring any transaction with one (1) or more financial or business institutions. For purposes of this paragraph, "structures" or "structuring" means that a person, acting alone, or in conjunction with or on behalf of other persons, conducts one (1) or more currency transactions, in any amount, at one (1) or more financial or business institutions, on one (1) or more days, in any manner, for the purpose of evading currency transaction reporting requirement of this state or of 31 U.S.C. §
5311 et seq. or 31 C.F.R. § 1010.100 et seq., or any rules or regulations adopted under those chapters and sections. For purposes of this paragraph, the transaction or transactions need not exceed any reporting threshold under state or federal law at any single financial or business institution on any single day.
(b)
Illegal investment is a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than ten (10) years, a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), or both.
Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2026
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(END)
Speaker of the House
President of the Senate
Governor
TIME APPROVED: _________
DATE APPROVED: _________
I hereby certify that this act originated in the House.
Chief Clerk
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