Bill Text: NY S03692 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires all banking organizations to have a notary public available during business hours; permits banking organizations to charge a fee for such service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-29 - REFERRED TO BANKS [S03692 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S03692-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3692

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 29, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Banks

        AN ACT to amend the banking law, in relation to  requiring  all  banking
          organizations to have a notary public available during business hours

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The banking law is amended by adding a new section  6-q  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 6-q. Notary publics; required. Every banking organization shall have
     4  a  person qualified as a notary public in this state on staff and avail-
     5  able on the premises of  each  facility  of  such  banking  organization
     6  during  regular business hours. Such banking organization shall have the
     7  option to charge a nominal fee, not to exceed  any  fee  established  in
     8  law, for any notary services provided.
     9    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02431-01-5
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