KY HB539 | 2017 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on March 6 2017 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-03-08 - returned to State & Local Government (S)
Pending: Senate State & Local Government Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]
Status: Engrossed on March 6 2017 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-03-08 - returned to State & Local Government (S)
Pending: Senate State & Local Government Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]
Summary
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 423 to define various terms; limit the applicability to notarial acts performed on or after the effective date of this Act; allow a notarial officer to perform a notarial act in Kentucky; outline requirements for certain notarial acts; require a personal appearance before a notarial officer; specify the requirements of identifying an individual before a notarial officer; allow a notarial officer to refuse to perform a notarial act; state who may perform a notarial act in Kentucky; recognize notarial acts performed in other states; recognize notarial acts performed in federally recognized Indian tribes under federal law, and in foreign countries; allow a notary public to perform a notarial act by means of communication technology; require a notarial act to be evidenced by a certificate; provide short form certificates for use by notarial officers; outline the requirements for an official stamp of a notary public; assign responsibility of the notary public's stamping device to the notary public; require a notary public to maintain a journal chronicling all notarial acts performed by that notary public; require a notary public to notify the Secretary of State that the notary public will be performing notarial acts with respect to electronic records; outline the necessary requirements to be a notary public; establish an examination based on a course of study approved by the Secretary of State; outline grounds for suspending, denying, or revoking a commission as a notary public; require the Secretary of State to maintain an electronic database of notaries public; detail prohibited acts; establish the validity of notarial acts; allow the Secretary of State to promulgate administrative regulations; require all commissions occurring after the effective date of this Act to comply with Sections 1 to 30 of this Act; state that Sections 1 to 30 of this Act modifies, limits, and supersedes the Electronic Signatures In Global and National Commerce Act; amend KRS 369.103 to allow electronic signatures on transactions relating to the conveyance of interests in real property and the creation or transfer of negotiable instruments; repeal KRS 423.010, 423.020, 423.030, 423.040, 423.050, 423.060, 423.070, 423.080, 423.110, 423.130, 423.140, 423.150, 423.160, 423.170, 423.180, 423.190, 423.200, and 423.990.
Title
AN ACT relating to notaries public.
Sponsors
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2017-03-08 | Senate | returned to State & Local Government (S) |
2017-03-08 | Senate | 2nd reading |
2017-03-08 | Senate | taken from State & Local Government (S) |
2017-03-07 | Senate | returned to State & Local Government (S) |
2017-03-07 | Senate | 1st reading |
2017-03-07 | Senate | taken from State & Local Government (S) |
2017-03-07 | Senate | to State & Local Government (S) |
2017-03-06 | Senate | received in Senate |
2017-03-03 | House | 3rd reading, passed 95-1 |
2017-03-02 | House | posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Friday, March 3, 2017 |
2017-03-02 | House | 2nd reading, to Rules |
2017-03-01 | House | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar |
2017-02-24 | House | posted in committee |
2017-02-21 | House | to Local Government (H) |
2017-02-17 | House | introduced in House |
Kentucky State Sources
Type | Source |
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Summary | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/HB539.htm |
Text | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB539/bill.pdf |
Supplement | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/HB539/vote_history.pdf |