Indiana Senate Bill 539 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: Passed on April 21 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-04-21 - Public Law 128
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Notaries public and trademarks. Provides that a person who wishes to register a trademark must file an electronic application for the registration of the trademark. Allows the governor to appoint notaries public in certain instances. Describes permitted notarial acts. Provides that notarial acts performed in another state are presumptively valid in certain instances. Provides that notarial acts performed: (1) under the authority of; and (2) within the jurisdiction of; a federally recognized tribe are presumptively valid in certain instances. Provides that notarial acts performed by foreign governments or nations are presumptively valid in certain instances. Specifies records should be notarized.

Notaries public and trademarks. Provides that a person who wishes to register a trademark must file an electronic application for the registration of the trademark. Allows the governor to appoint notaries public in certain instances. Describes permitted notarial acts. Provides that notarial acts performed in another state are presumptively valid in certain instances. Provides that notarial acts performed: (1) under the authority of; and (2) within the jurisdiction of; a federally recognized tribe are presumptively valid in certain instances. Provides that notarial acts performed by foreign governments or nations are presumptively valid in certain instances. Specifies records should be notarized.

Sen. Rodric Bray [R]	Sen. Elizabeth Brown [R]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]	Rep. Martin Carbaugh [R]
Rep. Gregory Steuerwald [R]	Rep. Thomas Washburne [R]	Rep. Sheila Klinker [D]

2017-04-11 - Senate - Senate - Senate concurred in House Amendments (Y: 43 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2017-03-30 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 85 N: 4 NV: 1 Abs: 10) [PASS]
2017-03-20 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2017-02-09 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 44 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2017-02-01 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-04-21	Senate	Public Law 128
2017-04-21	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2017-04-20	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2017-04-19	House	Signed by the Speaker
2017-04-13	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2017-04-11	Senate	Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 458: yeas 43, nays 5
2017-04-05	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2017-04-04	Senate	Motion to concur filed
2017-03-30	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2017-03-30	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 343: yeas 85, nays 4
2017-03-28	House	Amendment #2 (Torr) prevailed; voice vote
2017-03-28	House	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2017-03-20	House	Representative Klinker added as cosponsor
2017-03-20	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2017-03-09	House	Representative Washburne added as cosponsor
2017-03-09	House	Representative Carbaugh added as sponsor
2017-03-09	House	Representative Washburne removed as sponsor
2017-02-28	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
2017-02-10	Senate	Referred to the House
2017-02-09	Senate	Cosponsor: Representative Steuerwald
2017-02-09	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Washburne
2017-02-09	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 87: yeas 44, nays 3
2017-02-07	Senate	Amendment #1 (Bray) prevailed; voice vote
2017-02-07	Senate	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2017-02-02	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2017-01-31	Senate	Senator Brown L added as second author
2017-01-17	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
2017-01-17	Senate	Authored by Senator Bray

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/539/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/b/9/f/6b9f5624/SB0539.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/3/c/7/63c7b26d/SB0539.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/c/1/3/5c134735/SB0539.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/6/1/7/d617e9dc/SB0539.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/8/2/5/5825c907/SB0539.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/0/d/7/a0d74e94/SB0539.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/9/e/e/39eeb899/SB0539.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/5/1/0/75108c2c/SB0539.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/1/d/a/b1dadc76/SB0539.05.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/1/4/e/a14efa2d/SB0539.05.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/6/9/f/669f03c0/SB0539.06.ENRH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/c/6/b/6c6b85f7/SB0539.01.INTR.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/b/5/b/0b5ba1b4/SB0539.87.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/1/e/e/a1eecbb9/SB0539.03.ENGS.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/f/f/f/ffffe7e5/SB0539.343.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/5/7/9/a579c110/SB0539.458.pdf