HLS 22RS-1871 ENGROSSED
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) and to enact R.S. 35:626(C), relative to notaries; to
3 provide relative to remote online notarization; to provide relative to execution of
4 certain notarial acts; and to provide for related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 35:626(B) is hereby amended and reenacted and R.S. 35:626(C) is
7hereby enacted to read as follows:
8 ยง626. Location of notary, parties, and witnesses; location of remote online notarial
9 act
10 * * *
11 B. A remote online notarial act is deemed to be executed in any parish of this
12 state where any party is physically located at the time of the remote online
13 notarization. If no party was physically located in this state at the time of the remote
14 online notarization, the remote online notarial act is deemed to be executed in the
15 parish where the notary public is physically located at the time of the remote online
16 notarization if the notary public has jurisdiction in that parish.
17 C. An action on a contract that is a remote online notarial act may be brought
18 in any parish in which a party was physically located at the time of the remote online
19 notarization.
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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 Engrossed 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.
Proposed law provides that the venue for contracts that are remote online notarial acts may
be in any parish in which a party was physically located at the time of the remote online
notarization.
(Amends R.S. 35:626(B); Adds R.S. 35:626(C))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by House
The Committee Amendments Proposed by House Committee on Civil Law and
Procedure to the original bill:
1. Make technical amendments.
2. Provide for venue for contracts that are remote online notarial acts.
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