The Secretary of State's office is proposing amendments to the existing regulations relating to special handling and expedited filing services. The changes will provide all customers with a same-day expedited service option, ensure the Secretary of State can offer the same service options equally to all customers bringing documents to the Sacramento public counter and provide a low-cost option for those customers who want their business entity documents to be processed with priority over documents submitted by mail. The proposed regulatory action should facilitate the overall filing of business entity documents with the Secretary of State and generally benefit small businesses.

The proposed amendments also include written guidelines regarding the file date of a business entity document that has been returned for corrections and resubmitted for filing.

In addition, the proposed amendments clarify the fees charged by the Secretary of State for copying records, remove a special handling charge for documents received by the Secretary of State Uniform Commercial Code Section and make other non-substantive technical corrections or clarifications.

Below are links to the Public Notice, the Initial Statement of Reasons, the text of the proposed regulations and a Notice of Public Hearing. These documents are provided in PDF file format and can be viewed and printed from your computer using the most current version of the Adobe Reader (available for free from Adobe's Website).

	Public Notice
	Initial Statement of Reasons
	Text of Proposed Regulations
	Notice of Public Hearing
	Notice of Modifications to Proposed Regulations (June 12, 2008)
	Modified Text of Proposed Regulations (June 12, 2008)