LCO No. 3739 1 of 2 General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7097 January Session, 2019 LCO No. 3739 Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY Introduced by: (JUD) AN ACT CONCERNING IM PROVED PUBLIC ACCESS TO CERTAIN BUSINESS RECORDS FIL ED WITH THE SECRETAR Y OF THE STATE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: Section 1. (Effective July 1, 2019) The Secretary of the State, or the 1 secretary's designee, shall direct the Commercial Recording Division of 2 the office of the Secretary of the State to make enhancements to the 3 CONCORD commercial records database, on or before July 1, 2020, 4 that allow a member of the public to ascertain the name and address of 5 a business entity's agent for service of process by entering the name of 6 the owner, officer or agent of a business entity in the database. 7 This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: Section 1 July 1, 2019 New section Statement of Purpose: To require the Secretary of the State to enhance the CONCORD commercial records database by allowing a member of the public to ascertain the name and address of a business entity's agent for service Raised Bill No. 7097 LCO No. 3739 2 of 2 of process by entering the name of the owner, officer or agent of such business entity in the database. [Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]