HOUSE BILL 443
By Hulsey
SENATE BILL 508
By Walley
SB0508
000789
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 47,
relative to the Uniform Commercial Code.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 47-8-110(b), is amended by deleting
"local law of the securities intermediary's jurisdiction, as specified in subsection (e)," and
substituting "law of this state".
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 47-8-110, is amended by deleting
subsections (e) and (f).
SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 47-8-503(a), is amended by deleting
", except as otherwise provided in ยง 47-8-511".
SECTION 4. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 47-8-511, is amended by deleting the
section and substituting:
If a securities intermediary does not have sufficient interests in a particular
financial asset to satisfy both its obligations to entitlement holders who have security
entitlements to that financial asset and its obligation to a creditor of the securities
intermediary who has a security interest in that financial asset, then the claims of
entitlement holders, other than the creditor, have priority over the claim of the creditor.
SECTION 5. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 47-9-305(a), is amended by deleting
subdivisions (3) and (4) and substituting:
(3) The local law of the commodity intermediary's jurisdiction governs perfection,
the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in a
commodity contract or commodity account.
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SECTION 6. This act takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it.