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S10492021 Regular SessionSigned into law

Amends existing law to revise provisions of the Idaho Bank Act.

BANKING -- Amends existing law to revise provisions of the Idaho Bank Act.

BANKING

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

The purpose of this legislation is to focus on three main areas: providing regulatory relief for state-chartered banks, bringing bank management concerns into today’s reality of remote meetings, and distancing, and updating fees owed for banks over $10 billion in asset size. Below are the specific amendments to this bill: • Updates the requirement to conduct regular or special meetings of stockholders, board of directors, board committees, or the executive committee remotely • Eliminates the residency requirements for a bank’s board of directors; • Decreases the number of annual required bank board meetings from ten to six; • Eliminates the twenty percent write-down on bank-owned real estate during the Department of Finance Director-approved second 5-year period; • Updates bank fees for institutions with excess of $10 billion in total assets.

HOW THEY VOTED

house Chamber· Mar 12, 2021

House Third Reading

✓ Passed
68 Yea
0 Nay
2 absentPassed by 97.14 votes

ABSENT / NOT VOTING (2)

LATEST ACTION

Session Law Chapter 58 Effective: 07/01/2021

BILL INFO

Session
2021
Chamber
senate
Status date
Mar 17, 2021

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