REGULATION AND EXAMINATION OF RELATED ENTITIES.

(a) The banking commissioner may regulate and examine, to the same extent as if the services or activities were performed by a state trust company on its own premises:

(1) the activities of a state trust company affiliate; and

(2) the services or activities of a third-party service provider that a state trust company or state trust company affiliate has contracted for or otherwise arranged to be performed on behalf of the state trust company or state trust company affiliate.

(b) The banking commissioner may collect a fee from an examined third-party service provider or affiliate in connection with each examination to cover the cost of the examination or may collect that fee from the state trust companies that use the examined third-party service provider.

(c) To promote regulatory efficiency, if, in the preceding 24 months, a third-party service provider or affiliate has been examined by a federal or state financial services regulatory agency or by a member agency of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, or its successor agency, the banking commissioner may accept the results of that examination instead of conducting the banking commissioner's own examination of the third-party service provider or affiliate. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as limiting or restricting the banking commissioner from participating in an examination of a third-party service provider or affiliate conducted by a federal or state financial services regulatory agency or by a member agency of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, or its successor agency.

(d) A third-party service provider that refuses to submit to examination or to pay an assessed fee for examination under this section is subject to an enforcement action under Chapter 185. With respect to a third-party service provider's refusal to submit to examination, the banking commissioner may notify all state trust companies of the refusal and warn that continued use of the third-party service provider may constitute an unsafe and unsound fiduciary practice.