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WI AB133

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/13/2025

Primary Sponsor

David Armstrong

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Origin

State Assembly

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Amends Wisconsin's Uniform Commercial Code to give entitlement holders (customers with securities held in "street name" through brokers) priority over a securities intermediary's creditors in claims to financial assets, eliminating an exception that previously allowed creditors with control over securities to take priority

  • Removes provisions allowing clearing corporations' creditors to claim priority over entitlement holders even without control over the securities

  • Changes governing law for security entitlements from the securities intermediary's jurisdiction to the entitlement holder's jurisdiction

  • Repeals rules that determined a securities intermediary's jurisdiction based on agreements or account statement locations

  • Takes effect on the first day of the 4th month after publication, applying to security interests perfected on or after that date

Legislative Description

Investment securities under the Uniform Commercial Code.

Last Action

Read first time and referred to Committee on Financial Institutions

3/13/2025

Committee Referrals

Financial Institutions3/13/2025

Full Bill Text

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