HLS 22RS-1871 ORIGINAL
2022 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 903
BY REPRESENTATIVE GREGORY MILLER
NOTARIES: Provides for the parish of execution of remote online notarial acts
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 35:626(B), relative to notaries; to provide relative to remote
3 online notarization; to provide relative to execution of certain notarial acts; and to
4 provide for related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 35:626 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง626. Location of notary, parties, and witnesses; location of remote online notarial
8 act
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10 B. A remote online notarial act is deemed to be executed in any parish of this
11 state where any party is physically located at the time of the remote online
12 notarization. If no party was physically located in this state at the time of the remote
13 online notarization, the remote online notarial act is deemed to be executed in the
14 parish where the notary public is physically located at the time of the remote online
15 notarization if the notary public has jurisdiction in that parish.
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are additions. HLS 22RS-1871 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 903
DIGEST
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of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 903 Original 2022 Regular Session Gregory Miller
Abstract: Provides that a remote online notarial act is deemed to be executed in any parish
where the notary is physically located.
Present law provides that a remote online notarial act is deemed to be executed in any parish
of this state where any party is physically located at the time of the remote online
notarization.
Present law provides that if no party is physically located in this state at the time of the
remote online notarization, the remote online notarial act is deemed to be executed in the
parish where the notary public is physically located at the time of the remote online
notarization.
Proposed law changes present law and provides that a remote online notarial act is deemed
to be executed in the parish where the notary public is physically located at the time of the
remote online notarization. Proposed law requires the notary public to have jurisdiction in
the parish of execution in order for the act to be executed.
(Amends R.S. 35:626(B))
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