California — The California Secretary of State’s office has created a webpage to help corporations comply with Senate Bill 826 – the bill that requires publicly held corporations with their principal executive offices in California to have a minimum number of women on their board of directors.

South Carolina — House Bill 3243, effective August 1, 2019, revises the fee schedule of the clerks of court and registers of deeds for filing and recording various documents.

North Dakota — House Bill 1045, effective August 1, 2019, adds a provision to the North Dakota statutes relating to blockchain and amends the corporation law relating to, among other things, definitions, number of shareholders, annual reports, share certificates, shareholder voting lists, voting trusts, corporate records, dissolution, and, effective July 1, 2020 adding provisions to the LLC law authorizing series limited liability companies.

Connecticut — House Bill 7340, effective July 9, 2019, enacts new sections of law addressing the use of veil piercing and reverse veil piercing in determining the liability of interest holders of domestic entities for the entities' debts and obligations and liability of domestic entities for the debts and obligations of their interest holders.

Colorado — On July 8th Colorado’s Secretary of State issued an alert about a “potentially deceptive or misleading” notice being sent to business owners requesting an extra fee for a third party to file business documents. The alert advises that these solicitations are not sent by the Secretary of State’s office. The complete alert, which contains an example of the potentially misleading notice, can be accessed on the Secretary of State’s website.

New Jersey — Assembly Bill 5607, effective June 30, 2019, amends the entity laws regarding Annual Report fee increases and reinstatements.

Kentucky — House Bill 453, effective June 26, 2019, amends the nonprofit laws to allow for mergers between domestic nonprofit corporations and domestic nonprofit LLCs.

Delaware Senate Bill 91, effective August 1, 2019, amends the LLC law.