US Congress Senate Bill 1212

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on April 19 2023 - 25% progression
Action: 2023-04-19 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

A bill to authorize notaries public to perform, and to establish minimum standards for, electronic notarizations and remote notarizations that occur in or affect interstate commerce, to require any Federal court to recognize notarizations performed by a notarial officer of any State, to require any State to recognize notarizations performed by a notarial officer of any other State when the notarization was performed under or relates to a public Act, record, or judicial proceeding of notarial officer's State or when the notarization occurs in or affects interstate commerce, and for other purposes.

Securing and Enabling Commerce Using Remote and Electronic Notarization Act of 2023

Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]	Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA]	Sen. John Hoeven [R-ND]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]
Sen. Raphael Warnock [D-GA]	Sen. Jerry Moran [R-KS]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Tom Cotton [R-AR]
Sen. Shelley Capito [R-WV]	Sen. Steve Daines [R-MT]	Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]	Sen. Mark Kelly [D-AZ]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-04-19	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

HB1059 (Related) 2023-02-28 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/1212/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/s1212/BILLS-118s1212is.pdf