Sun Document Filings can file your California LLC certificate of amendment with the California Secretary of State on an expedited basis. We are located in Sacramento and visit the Secretary of State 3 times a day. Often California LLC amendments are filed to change an LLC name. An LLC-2 form must be filed with the California Secretary of State's office to amend the LLC Articles of Organization. Simply follow our step by step filing guide and your LLC Certificate of Amendment will be accepted and filed the first time. Be sure to read our filing tips for additional LLC amendment information.

Step 1: Statement of Information: If the California LLC is over 90 days old, the LLC is required to have a current Statement of Information on file before it can amend its Articles of Organization. This is a common oversight made by document filers. Without the Statement of Information, the Secretary of State does not have on record who is authorized to sign as a member or manager of California LLC. If you need assistance with filing your Statement of Information on an expedited basis, click here.

Step 2: Check name availability: Skip this step if the California LLC Amendment is not a name change or name availability has already been checked. First, determine your primary name and back up name choices for your California LLC. Please download our name availability order form in PDF format.

Step 3: Complete the form: Complete the California LLC Certificate of Amendment. For your convenience, you may download a copy of the form including detailed instructions prepared by the California Secretary of State in PDF format below. The form provided can be viewed and printed from your computer using the most current version of the Adobe Reader (available for free from Adobe's Website).

Download and complete: Form LLC-2 Certificate of Amendment

Over the years, we have filed thousands of LLC Amendments with the California Secretary of State. Overtime, we have recognized why some LLC Amendments are rejected (not accepted by the State without correction) and why some LLC Certificate of Amendments are accepted the first time. If you follow our filing tips, you will have a better chance of your document being accepted the first time.
To avoid document rejection, please click here to view our filing tips

Step 4: How fast do you need your document filed? Select the appropriate order form and fax or e-mail the completed form with the signed Certificate of Amendment Form LLC-2  to 800-498-3611 or e-mail to order@sundocumentfilings.com **The order forms are in PDF format. Please type on the form from your computer. For legibility purposes, please do not handwrite.** Fees

Option 1: 24 hour rush order form - Documents received by 2:00pm PST
Option 2: Routine - 7 business days order form*

*NOTE: Documents submitted on a routine basis (normally 7 business days from March - November) from December thru February will take between 10-15 business days to be processed due to the increased filing volume at the Secretary of State's office. If you need your document faster, please use the rush option.

Step 5: Document is complete: When the state is finished with your document, they will return two certified copies. We will immediately fax a copy of the filed document to you. We will return the two certified copies via regular mail. FedEx is available for an additional $25.00 fee or use your own FedEx account number at no extra charge. That is it. So fast and easy!

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Service and State Fees for LLC Certificate of Amendments

Name availability check: $30.00 for one first choice plus 2 back up name choices for no extra charge plus a state fee of $4.00 per each name checked. Add $10.00 state charge to reserve the LLC name (optional). Click here for order form.

File California LLC Certificate of Amendment

Fax/e-mail the form: 24 hours. If you need to amend an LLC on a 24 hour rush basis, the Secretary of State charges a $350.00 rush fee plus a $30.00 filing fee. Our fee is a total of $100.00 for this service. Total fees: $480.00. Fax or e-mail the document to our office with a cover letter. Credit card required.

Routine fax/e-mail: 7 business days: Our service fee is $70.00 plus the California Secretary of State fee of $45.00 ($30.00 filing fee + $15.00 counter fee) for a total of $115.00. Fax or e-mail the document to our office. Credit card required. This option shaves a day of the filing time, eliminates preparation time on you end, and saves you a FedEx fee to our office.

Budget Mail in: 7 business days: Our service fee is $50.00 plus the California Secretary of State fee of $30.00 filing fee + $15.00 counter fee. To qualify for the reduced service fee, you must send the following: 1 originally signed document and 2 photocopies. Two separate checks both made payable to the Secretary of State; one for $30.00 and one for $15.00. A third check for our fee made payable to Sun Document Filings for $50.00. Add $3.00 if you would like a fax return copy. Add $25.00 if you would like FedEx overnight or use your own FedEx account number for no extra charge. See Contacts for mailing address.

Review Document Warranty can be purchased for an additional $50.00 for routine service or $100.00 for 24 hour rush orders. Check option on order form. Warranty includes: Verifying that the following is present: Check legal name and LLC number, signer's name is present, title of signer is present and the title is acceptable, verify date and signature are present. In addition, we will look for obvious errors such as name missing LLC ending or LLC numbers that are shorter then usual. We will also verify that the form is acceptable for microfilming. The review warranty does not include verifying that the person or persons who has signed the document has proper authority to sign or that the title they have provided matches the current statement of information (nor will be verify the statement of information has been filed) or who the authorized signers (per the statement of information) are on the LLC on the form. Warranty does not cover changes in management, attachment pages, amendment reasons, or any information that would be deemed legal or require legal review. NOTE: We cannot review any document for legal errors as we are attorneys.

Filing tips for a California LLC Certificate of Amendment

- Have the Articles of Organization, current Statement of Information, and any previously filed Certificate of Amendments in front of you while preparing the Certificate of Amendment LLC-2 form.

-The member or manager that plans on signing the Certificate of Amendment must be listed on the most current Statement of Information LLC-12.

- Do not reference the Agent for Services of Process anywhere on the Certificate of Amendment. If you want to change the Agent for Service of Process, you must file a Statement of Information.

- Double check the LLC number and make sure it matches exactly with the Secretary of State's records. If the LLC was formed in 1998 or earlier, due to the Y2K bug, the Secretary of State changed all the LLC numbers. Hint: If your original file number starts with 101 then you have an old number. Do not use the old number on the form. Use the new number that starts with the year it was formed such as 1998. If the LLC was formed in 1999 or later, use the number that was issued on the Articles of Organization. Call the Secretary of State at 916-653-3365 to verify your LLC number.

- When filling in the form LLC-2, make sure that the LLC's current name it is typed exactly as it appears on the Articles of Organization or previous name change Amendment. Do not abbreviate it or leave out punctuation.

- Remember, you are amending an Articles on the original Articles of Organization. Therefore, you can't amend something that wasn't there in the first place.

- The Certificate of Amendment must be typed.

- The Certificate of Amendment cannot be signed by the attorney, it must be signed by the member or manager.

- Do not enter an effective date that has already past. An effective date is not required and if in doubt, leave it blank. However, if you want to mention a future effective date, please follow the Secretary of State's instructions.

- Do not check mark the 3. B. "The Limited Liability company will be managed by:" or less you are actually changing how the LLC is managed. For example, the Articles of Organization state "one manager" will manage and on the form you check "one manager", the Secretary of State will reject the document because you are attempting to amend information that is already of record.

- If the LLC is owned/managed by another business entity such as a corporation or other LLC AND the name of the business entity is listed on the current Statement of Information, sign the document as follows:

If member/manager is a corporation - John Doe, President on behalf of ABC, Inc., Manager - This would indicate that the manager of the LLC that is being amended is ABC, Inc. John Doe has authority as President of ABC, Inc. to sign on behalf of the company provided John Doe is listed on ABC, Inc.'s current Statement of Information.

If member/manager is an LLC - John Doe, Manager on behalf of ABC, LLC, Manager - This would indicate that the manager of the LLC that is being amended is ABC, LLC. John Doe has authority as Manager of ABC, LLC to sign on behalf of the company provided John Doe is listed on ABC, LLC's current Statement of Information.

- For further tips, please read all the instructions contained in the Certificate of Amendment Filing Packet.        Return to Step 4

NOTE: We hope you find our LLC Certificate of Amendment steps useful and easy to follow. Nothing contained in our steps should be construed as giving legal or financial advice. Our intended audience is attorneys and accountants. Therefore, if you are not an attorney or accountant, you should contact an attorney or accountant for specific legal or tax questions regarding your LLC. Please be aware that the Tax agency and Nevada Secretary of State are government agencies and can change their fees/procedures/forms/turnaround times without notification. Although we do our best to update our steps and stay current, we shall not be held liable for any omissions or errors contained. We do not profess to be giving legal or financial advice to the general public. We are a typing and filing agency that serves the needs of attorneys and accountants.

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We can file your California LLC Certificate of Amendment with the State. We can change your LLC name with a LLC amendment filings. LLC amendments will amend the Articles of Organization. We can file your California LLC amendment on a rush.