Corporate records: articles of incorporation: blockchain technology.

Existing law authorizes and regulates the formation and operation of a corporation, social purpose corporation, nonprofit public benefit corporation, nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, or nonprofit religious corporation, including, but not limited to, the adoption and contents of corporate articles of incorporation. This bill would also authorize, until January 1, 2022, a corporation or a social purpose corporation that does not have outstanding securities listed on specified securities exchanges to adopt provisions within its articles of incorporation authorizing records administered by or on behalf of the corporation in which the names of all of the corporation's stockholders of record, the address and number of shares registered in the name of each of those stockholders, and all issuances and transfers of stock of the corporation to be recorded and kept on or by means of blockchain technology, as specified.