BILL NUMBER: AB 2641 INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Skinner FEBRUARY 24, 2012 An act relating to nonprofit corporations. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2641, as introduced, Skinner. Nonprofit corporations: required filings. Existing law provides for the organization and governance of nonprofit public benefit corporations, nonprofit mutual benefit corporations, and nonprofit religious corporations. Existing law requires these corporations to prepare and file articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State, and within 90 days of that filing, and biennially thereafter, as specified, to file a form prescribed by the secretary stating specified information regarding certain officers, office location, and agent for service of process, among other information. Existing law requires a charitable corporation, as defined, to also file periodic written reports with the Attorney General beginning within 4 months and 15 days following the close of the first calendar or fiscal year in which it initially receives property, setting forth information as to the nature of the assets held for charitable purposes and the administration thereof. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require the secretary and the Attorney General to cooperate with each other to designate a single form for these purposes and to make that form available for the electronic filing. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require the Secretary of State and the Attorney General to cooperate with each other to designate a single form for filing by a charitable corporation, as defined in Section 12582.1 of the Government Code, in satisfaction of the filing requirements pursuant to Sections 6210 and 8210 of the Corporations Code and Section 12586 of the Government Code, and to make that form available for electronic filing.