California
Misleading Statement of Information Solicitations :: California Secretary of State
Sure enterprise entities have reported receiving deceptive solicitations like this pattern (PDF) urging the enterprise to submit an order kind and processing payment to a 3rd get together to file a Assertion of Data on their behalf with the California Secretary of State or endure penalties, fines, suspension or seizure.
This solicitation, “California Companies Annual Order Kind” and related solicitations, should not being despatched on behalf of the California Secretary of State.
The deceptive solicitation could be recognized from the next traits as proven within the pattern (PDF) :
- Kind quantity “501-C” in daring font on the higher left and the 12 months “2022”, on the higher proper of the order kind are positioned to make the shape seem like an official tax return kind. [“Instructions on back” are not available.];
- Discloses the provide is neither permitted nor endorsed by any governmental company; signifies the provide is just not from a authorities company;
- A “Service Course of Payment” is almost 10 occasions the payment to file a Assertion of Data straight with the California Secretary of State;
- Offers an estimated processing time of 4-6 weeks to course of and file the Assertion of Data on behalf of the company. Word: a Assertion of Data could be filed straight with the California Secretary of State on bizfile On-line and is mostly processed inside minutes;
- Discloses the order kind is just not a invoice. It’s a solicitation with no obligation to pay except the provide is accepted;
- Makes an attempt to create a way of urgency by summarizing the implications of failing to well timed file a Assertion of Data utilizing exaggerated phrases akin to “your entity may very well be taken”;
- References or quotes California legislation, a few of that are correct and a few of that are false;
- Might embody correct prepopulated details about the enterprise entity, such because the enterprise kind and entity quantity.
These solicitations should not being made or approved by the California Secretary of State’s workplace or some other governmental entity. Though a enterprise entity can use an middleman to submit filings and charges to our workplace, no enterprise is required to undergo one other firm to be able to file its paperwork with the California Secretary of State’s workplace.
Statements of Data could also be filed on-line at bizfileOnline.sos.ca.gov. The payment to file the assertion is $25 for California inventory and international companies, and $20 for California nonprofit companies and all restricted legal responsibility firms.
Word that submitting the charges and filings required by the California Companies Code to a 3rd get together for submitting with the California Secretary of State doesn’t meet the enterprise entity’s statutory obligation to file a Assertion of Data with the California Secretary of State. Additionally, notice that Companies are required to maintain data, books and minutes of its proceedings, nonetheless this stuff should not filed with the California Secretary of State.
Motion for Deceptive Solicitations
California companies that obtain certainly one of these deceptive solicitation letters or which have paid for and obtained doc(s) ought to submit a written grievance together with the whole solicitation (together with the solicitation letter, the outer and return envelopes, and all associated paperwork if obtainable, and a replica of any paperwork obtained) to the California Lawyer Basic, Public Inquiry Unit, P.O. Field 944255, Sacramento, California 94244–2550. A Shopper Criticism Towards Enterprise/Company could be accomplished on-line and printed to mail.
** Disclaimer: Though each try has been made to make sure that the knowledge contained on the bizfile On-line portal is correct, the California Secretary of State’s workplace is just not liable for any loss, consequence, or harm ensuing straight or not directly from reliance on the accuracy, reliability, or timeliness of the knowledge that’s supplied. All such info is supplied “as is.”
Statutes of 2018, Chapter 293 (AB 492 Grayson)
California
Caitlyn Jenner says she'd 'destroy' Kamala Harris in hypothetical race to be CA gov
SAN FRANCISCO – Caitlyn Jenner, the gold-medal Olympian-turned reality TV personality, is considering another run for Governor of California. This time, she says, if she were to go up against Vice President Kamala Harris, she would “destroy her.”
Jenner, who publicly came out as transgender nearly 10 years ago, made a foray into politics when she ran as a Republican during the recall election that attempted to unseat Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2021. Jenner only received one percent of the vote and was not considered a serious candidate.
Jenner posted this week on social media that she’s having conversations with “many people” and hopes to have an announcement soon about whether she will run.
Caitlyn Jenner speaks at the 4th annual Womens March LA: Women Rising at Pershing Square on January 18, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images)
She has also posted in Trumpian-style all caps: “MAKE CA GREAT AGAIN!”
As for VP Harris, she has not indicated any future plans for when she leaves office. However, a recent poll suggests Harris would have a sizable advantage should she decide to run in 2026. At that point, Newsom cannot run again because of term limits.
If Jenner decides to run and wins, it would mark the nation and state’s first transgender governor.
California
Northern California 6-year-old, parents hailed as heroes for saving woman who crashed into canal
LIVE OAK — A six-year-old and her parents are being called heroes by a Northern California community for jumping into a canal to save a 75-year-old woman who drove off the road.
It happened on Larkin Road near Paseo Avenue in the Sutter County community of Live Oak on Monday.
“I just about lost her, but I didn’t,” said Terry Carpenter, husband of the woman who was rescued. “We got more chances.”
Terry said his wife of 33 years, Robin Carpenter, is the love of his life and soulmate. He is grateful he has been granted more time to spend with her after she survived her car crashing off a two-lane road and overturning into a canal.
“She’s doing really well,” Terry said. “No broken bones, praise the Lord.”
It is what some call a miracle that could have had a much different outcome without a family of good Samaritans.
“Her lips were purple,” said Ashley Martin, who helped rescue the woman. “There wasn’t a breath at all. I was scared.”
Martin and her husband, Cyle Johnson, are being hailed heroes by the Live Oak community for jumping into the canal, cutting Robin out of her seat belt and pulling her head above water until first responders arrived.
“She was literally submerged underwater,” Martin said. “She had a back brace on. Apparently, she just had back surgery. So, I grabbed her brace from down below and I flipped her upward just in a quick motion to get her out of that water.”
The couple said the real hero was their six-year-old daughter, Cayleigh Johnson.
“It was scary,” Cayleigh said. “So the car was going like this, and it just went boom, right into the ditch.”
Cayleigh was playing outside and screamed for her parents who were inside the house near the canal.
I spoke with Robin from her hospital bed over the phone who told us she is in a lot of pain but grateful.
“The thing I can remember is I started falling asleep and then I was going over the bump and I went into the ditch and that’s all I remember,” Robin said.
It was a split-second decision for a family who firefighters said helped save a stranger’s life.
“It’s pretty unique that someone would jump in and help somebody that they don’t even know,” said Battalion Chief for Sutter County Fire Richard Epperson.
Robin is hopeful that she will be released from the hospital on Wednesday in time to be home for Thanksgiving.
“She gets Thanksgiving and Christmas now with her family and grandkids,” Martin said.
Terry and Robin are looking forward to eventually meeting the family who helped save Robin’s life. The family expressed the same feelings about meeting the woman they helped when she is out of the hospital.
“I can’t wait for my baby to get home,” Terry said.
California
California may exclude Tesla from EV rebate program
California Gov. Gavin Newsom may exclude Tesla and other automakers from an electric vehicle (EV) rebate program if the incoming Trump administration scraps a federal tax credit for electric car purchases.
Newsom proposed creating a new version of the state’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Program, which was phased out in 2023 after funding more than 594,000 vehicles and saving more than 456 million gallons of fuel, the governor’s office said in a news release on Monday.
“Consumers continue to prove the skeptics wrong – zero-emission vehicles are here to stay,” Newsom said in a statement. “We’re not turning back on a clean transportation future – we’re going to make it more affordable for people to drive vehicles that don’t pollute.”
The proposed rebates would be funded with money from the state’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which is funded by polluters under the state’s cap-and-trade program, the governor’s office said. Officials did not say how much the program would cost or save consumers.
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They would also include changes to promote innovation and competition in the zero-emission vehicles market – changes that could prevent automakers like Tesla from qualifying for the rebates.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who relocated Tesla’s corporate headquarters from California to Texas in 2021, responded to the possibility of having Tesla EVs left out of the program.
“Even though Tesla is the only company who manufactures their EVs in California! This is insane,” Musk wrote on X, which he also owns.
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Those buying or leasing Tesla vehicles accounted for about 42% of the state’s rebates, The Associated Press reported, citing data from the California Air Resources Board.
Newsom’s office told Fox Business Digital that the proposal is intended to foster market competition, and any potential market cap is subject to negotiation with the state Legislature.
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“Under a potential market cap, and depending on what the cap is, there’s a possibility that Tesla and other automakers could be excluded,” the governor’s office said. “But that’s again subject to negotiations with the legislature.”
Newsom’s office noted that such market caps have been part of rebate programs since George W. Bush’s administration in 2005.
Federal tax credits for EVs are currently worth up to $7,500 for new zero-emission vehicles. President-elect Trump has previously vowed to end the credit.
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California has surpassed 2 million zero-emission vehicles sold, according to the governor’s office. The state, however, could face a $2 billion budget deficit next year, Reuters reported, citing a non-partisan legislative estimate released last week.
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