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WI AB133
Bill
Status
3/13/2025
Primary Sponsor
David Armstrong
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AI Summary
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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
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Removes provisions allowing clearing corporations' creditors to claim priority over entitlement holders even without control over the securities
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Changes governing law for security entitlements from the securities intermediary's jurisdiction to the entitlement holder's jurisdiction
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Repeals rules that determined a securities intermediary's jurisdiction based on agreements or account statement locations
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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