Providing for notarial acts, including by providing for the use of electronic media, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions. Various effective dates; see section 11 of bill

However, the bill only applies to the filing of instruments affecting real property with a county recorder, and specifically instruments conveying or encumbering real property. Under the bill, a public notary who performs a notarial act remotely must comply with certain standards, including rules adopted by the secretary of state. This includes keeping the audio-video recording of the notarization for at least years. A document purporting to convey or encumber real property that has been recorded provides notice to third persons regardless of whether it has been properly certified. The bill also provides that a county recorder may accept a tangible copy of the electronic record, if a notarial officer certifies that the copy is accurate. RESTRICTION ON USE OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION. The bill creates a nonuniform provision that restricts a public notary or person involved in performing a notarial act electronically from using personally identifiable information that is contained in a created record subject to specified exceptions in the bill. A person who violates this provision of the bill commits a simple misdemeanor. EFFECTIVE DATE. The bill takes effect on July 1, 2020.