118th Congress · HOUSE BILLBILL

H.R. 1059 — Securing and Enabling Commerce Using Remote and Electronic Notarization Act of 2023

“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 the notarial officer's State or when the notarization occurs in or affects interstate commerce, and for other purposes.”

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Introduced Feb 17, 2023

Last action Feb 28, 2023

Pipeline · Bill → Law

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Introduced

Feb 17, 2023

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Referred

Feb 24, 2023

E&C · Judiciary · the Judiciary

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Committee

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House floor

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Senate

Feb 28, 2023

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Resolve Changes

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Signed

SummaryCRS Summary

This bill allows a notary public commissioned under state law to remotely notarize electronic records and perform notarizations for remotely located individuals. The bill provides technical requirements for the notarizations, including the creation and retention of video and audio recordings and the use of communication technologies (i.e., video chat). Additionally, the bill requires U.S. courts and states to recognize notarizations—including remote notarizations of electronic records and notarizations of remotely-located individuals—that occur in or affect interstate commerce and are performed by a notary public commissioned under the laws of other states. The bill also allows a notary pu...

Provisions · 11 sectionsEngrossed in House

Timeline · 10 actions

Feb 28, 2023

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Feb 27, 2023

Mr. Bilirakis moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.

Feb 27, 2023

Considered under suspension of the rules.

Feb 27, 2023

DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1059.

Feb 27, 2023

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.

Feb 27, 2023

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Feb 24, 2023

Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce.

Feb 17, 2023

Introduced in House

Feb 17, 2023

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Feb 17, 2023