Bill Text: WV SB390 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Secretary of State rule relating to standards and guidelines for electronic notarization, remote online notarization, and remote ink notarization

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-21 - Reported in Com. Sub. for S. B. 334 [SB390 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2022-SB390-Introduced.html

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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2022 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 390

By Senator Sypolt

[Introduced January 17, 2022; referred

to the Committee on the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-9-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Secretary of State to promulgate a legislative rule relating to standards and guidelines for electronic notarization, remote online notarization, and remote ink notarization.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 9. Authorization for miscellanous agencies and boards to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-9-1. Secretary of State.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 30, 2021, authorized under the authority of §39-4-37 and §39-4-38 of this code, modified by the Secretary of State to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on December 29, 2021, relating to the Secretary of State (Standards and Guidelines for Electronic Notarization, Remote Online Notarization, and Remote Ink Notarization, 153 CSR 45), is authorized.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Secretary of State to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Standards and Guidelines for Electronic Notarization, Remote Online Notarization, and Remote Ink Notarization.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.