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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 99
February Session, 2022
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Referred to Committee on COMMERCE
Introduced by:
(CE)
AN ACT ESTABLISHING A WORKING GROUP TO STUDY REMOTE
NOTARIAL ACTS AND THE REVISED UNIFORM LAW ON NOTARIAL
ACTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective from passage) (a) The chairpersons of the joint 1
standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of 2
matters relating to commerce shall convene a working group to examine 3
and make recommendations regarding whether to adopt the Revised 4
Uniform Law on Notarial Acts and whether remote notarial acts should 5
be permitted in connection with real estate and trusts and estates 6
transactions. 7
(b) Appointments to the working group shall include, but need not 8
be limited to, the Secretary of the State, or the Secretary's designee, a 9
representative from the General Assembly who is an attorney having 10
experience in real estate transactions, representatives from the joint 11
standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of 12
matters relating to commerce, government administration and the 13
judiciary, the Judicial Branch, the office of the Secretary of the State, the 14 Raised Bill No. 99
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Connecticut State Library, the Connecticut Town Clerks Association, the 15
Uniform Law Commission, state or regional bar associations, notary 16
associations and the title insurance industry and the mortgage industry. 17
All appointments to the working group shall be made not later than 18
thirty days after the effective date of this section. 19
(c) The Secretary of the State, or the Secretary's designee, and the 20
representative from the General Assembly who is an attorney having 21
experience in real estate transactions shall be the chairpersons of the 22
working group. The chairpersons of the working group shall schedule 23
the first meeting of the working group, which shall be held not later than 24
sixty days after the effective date of this section. The working group 25
shall meet at least monthly thereafter, until it submits its report 26
pursuant to subsection (d) of this section. 27
(d) Not later than January 1, 2023, the working group shall submit a 28
report on its findings and recommendations pursuant to subsection (a) 29
of this section to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly 30
having cognizance of matters relating to commerce, government 31
administration and the judiciary, in accordance with the provisions of 32
section 11-4a of the general statutes. The working group shall terminate 33
on the date that it submits such report or on January 1, 2023, whichever 34
is later. 35
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To establish a working group to examine and make recommendations
regarding whether to adopt the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts
and whether remote notarial acts should be permitted in connection
with real estate and trusts and estates transactions.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]