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Assembly Bill A9232

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Permits the electronic notarization of certain documents

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2025-A9232 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
State Technology Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §307, add §310, St Tech L

2025-A9232 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits electronic notarization and witnessing of certain documents.

2025-A9232 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9232
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 3, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. KAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Governmental Operations
 
 AN  ACT to amend the state technology law, in relation to permitting the
   electronic notarization of certain documents
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 307 of the state technology law,
 as separately amended by chapter 543 of the laws of 2023 and chapter  33
 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  To  any [document providing for the disposition of an individual's
 person or property upon death or incompetence, or appointing a fiduciary
 of an individual's person or property,  including,  without  limitation,
 wills,  trusts,  decisions  consenting to orders not to resuscitate, and
 powers of attorney, with the exception of] RECORD WHICH, IF IT  WERE  IN
 WRITING  AND  MADE AS PRESCRIBED BY SECTION 3-2.1 OF THE ESTATES, POWERS
 AND TRUSTS LAW, WOULD BE A WILL UNDER SUCH LAW, INCLUDING RECORDS EFFEC-
 TIVE ON THE SIGNER'S DEATH PROVIDING FOR THE  DISPOSITION  OF  PROPERTY,
 VESTING  OF  PROPERTY  IN  TRUST, OR EXERCISE OF ANY POWER, EFFECTIVE ON
 DEATH, UNLESS SUCH RECORD IS AN ELECTRONIC WILL RECOGNIZED UNDER ARTICLE
 THREE OF THE ESTATES, POWERS AND TRUSTS LAW, BUT, FOR THE  AVOIDANCE  OF
 DOUBT,  EXCEPTING:  (a)  contractual  beneficiary  designations; (b) the
 registration of making, amending, or revoking an anatomical  gift  under
 section  forty-three hundred ten of the public health law; (c) documents
 and forms authorizing  or  accepting  funeral,  cemetery  and  cremation
 services, INCLUDING A DESIGNATION OF A PERSON TO CONTROL THE DISPOSITION
 OF  A  DECEDENT'S  REMAINS  UNDER  SECTION  FORTY-TWO HUNDRED ONE OF THE
 PUBLIC HEALTH LAW; and (d) the execution of a valid  power  of  attorney
 for  the  purpose of transferring a salvage certificate of title and the
 execution of an odometer and damage disclosure statement  in  connection
 with  such title whenever a loss in connection with a private automobile
 is determined by an insurer to be a total  loss  or  constructive  total
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13618-02-5
              

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