Relating to business entities; and declaring an emergency.
Summary
Authorizes Secretary of State to investigate alleged or potential violations of business entity statutes and to require business entity to provide list of shareholders and respond to interrogatories. Permits Secretary of State to impose penalties, cancel or revoke incorporation or dissolve business entity that violates statutes or fails to cooperate with investigation. Permits Department of Revenue to recommend dissolution of business entity that fails to comply with tax laws of state, but not if department has allowed appeal of business entity's tax liability or if appeal is pending. Subjects directors, officers, employees, members and managers of shell entity to claim for damages from person that suffers ascertainable loss of money or property resulting from knowing dissemination of materially false statement concerning certain aspects of shell entity's finances and operations. Specifies information concerning street address of business entity and name and address of director, controlling shareholder, member or manager that must appear in articles of incorporation or articles of organization for business entity. Permits court to dissolve business entity that court finds was shell entity that was used, incorporated or organized for illegal purpose, to defraud or deceive another person or to conceal business activity from another person or governmental agency. Permits Attorney General to bring action for dissolution and specifies elements of prima facie showing. Specifies effects of finding that business entity is shell entity. Specifies that principal office of business entity incorporated or organized in this state or authorized to transact business in this state must have physical street address that may not be commercial mail receiving agency, mail forwarding business or virtual office. Permits department to disclose certain information from taxpayer return to Secretary of State for purposes of initiating or supporting recommendation for administrative dissolution of business entity that fails to comply with applicable tax laws of state. Becomes operative January 1, 2018. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2017.
Bill status
signed
all 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2017
Committee Review
Jul 2017
Senate Passage
Jul 2017
Signed into Law
Aug 2017
Introduced Jan 9, 2017
Signed Aug 15, 2017
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
26
Key actions
10
Committee
8
Aug 15, 2017
Signed into law
Governor signed.
legislature
Jul 18, 2017
Legislature · Passed
President signed.
legislature
Jul 18, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Speaker signed.
legislature
Jul 7, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Rules suspended. House concurred in Senate amendments and repassed bill.
legislature
Jul 7, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by DeBoer. Passed.
legislature
Jul 7, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Recommendation: Do pass with amendments to the B-Eng. bill to resolve conflicts. (Printed C-Eng.)
(Amendments distributed.)
legislature
Jul 6, 2017
Committee
Referred to Ways and Means.
legislature
Jul 6, 2017
Introduced
First reading. Referred to President's desk.
legislature
Jul 5, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Holvey. Passed.
legislature
Jul 4, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Recommendation: Do pass with amendments and be printed B-Engrossed.
legislature
Jun 28, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Returned to Full Committee.
legislature
May 31, 2017
Committee
Assigned to Subcommittee On General Government.
legislature
Apr 21, 2017
Committee
Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
legislature
Apr 21, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.
legislature
Jan 18, 2017
Committee
Referred to Business and Labor with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
legislature
Jan 9, 2017
Introduced
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
legislature
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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