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117TH CONGRESS J REPT. 117-443
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
SECURING AND ENABLING COMMERCE USING REMOTE
AND ELECTRONIC NOTARIZATION ACT OF 2022
JULY 26, 2022.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. PALLONE, from the Committee on Energy and Commerce,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 3962]
The Committee on Energy and Commerce, to whom was referred
the bill (H.R. 3962) to authorize notaries public to perform, and to
establish minimum standards for, electronic notarizations and re-
mote notarizations that occur in or affect interstate commerce, to
require any Federal court to recognize notarizations performed by
a notarial officer of any State, to require any State to recognize
notarizations performed by a notarial officer of any other State
when the notarization was performed under or relates to a public
Act, record, or judicial proceeding of the notarial officer's State or
when the notarization occurs in or affects interstate commerce, and
for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as
amended do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
I. Purpose and Sum m ary .................................................................................. 7
II. Background and Need for the Legislation ................................................... 7
III. Committee Hearings ...................................................................................... 7
IV. Com m ittee Consideration .............................................................................. 8
V . Com m ittee V otes .......................................................................................... 8
VI. Oversight Findings ........................................................................................ 11
VII. New Budget Authority, Entitlement Authority, and Tax Expenditures 11
VIII. Federal M andates Statem ent ....................................................................... 11
IX. Statement of General Performance Goals and Objectives ......................... 11
X. Duplication of Federal Program s .................................................................. 11
XI. Com m ittee Cost Estim ate ............................................................................ 11
XII. Earmarks, Limited Tax Benefits, and Limited Tariff Benefits ................. 11
XIII. Advisory Com m ittee Statem ent .................................................................... 12
XIV. Applicability to Legislative Branch .............................................................. 12
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