[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
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[H.R. 3808 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.3808

                      One Hundred Eleventh Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
             the fifth day of January, two thousand and ten


                                 An Act


 
To require any Federal or State court to recognize any notarization made 
 by a notary public licensed by a State other than the State where the 
court is located when such notarization occurs in or affects interstate 
                                commerce.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Interstate Recognition of 
Notarizations Act of 2010''.
SEC. 2. RECOGNITION OF NOTARIZATIONS IN FEDERAL COURTS.
    Each Federal court shall recognize any lawful notarization made by 
a notary public licensed or commissioned under the laws of a State 
other than the State where the Federal court is located if--
        (1) such notarization occurs in or affects interstate commerce; 
    and
        (2)(A) a seal of office, as symbol of the notary public's 
    authority, is used in the notarization; or
        (B) in the case of an electronic record, the seal information 
    is securely attached to, or logically associated with, the 
    electronic record so as to render the record tamper-resistant.
SEC. 3. RECOGNITION OF NOTARIZATIONS IN STATE COURTS.
    Each court that operates under the jurisdiction of a State shall 
recognize any lawful notarization made by a notary public licensed or 
commissioned under the laws of a State other than the State where the 
court is located if--
        (1) such notarization occurs in or affects interstate commerce; 
    and
        (2)(A) a seal of office, as symbol of the notary public's 
    authority, is used in the notarization; or
        (B) in the case of an electronic record, the seal information 
    is securely attached to, or logically associated with, the 
    electronic record so as to render the record tamper-resistant.
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.
    In this Act:
        (1) Electronic record.--The term ``electronic record'' has the 
    meaning given that term in section 106 of the Electronic Signatures 
    in Global and National Commerce Act (15 U.S.C. 7006).
        (2) Logically associated with.--Seal information is ``logically 
    associated with'' an electronic record if the seal information is 
    securely bound to the electronic record in such a manner as to make 
    it impracticable to falsify or alter, without detection, either the 
    record or the seal information.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.