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CA Assembly Bill 1597

Legislation

State: California
Signed: June 30, 2026

Effective: January 01, 2027
Chapter: 39

Summary

Assembly Bill 1597 raises the fees Notaries may charge for notarial acts by $5.

Affects

Amends Section 8211 of the California Government Code.

Changes
  1. Raises the maximum fee Notaries may charge for taking an acknowledgment or proof of a deed, or other instrument, or administering an oath or affirmation, and executing the jurat from $15 to $20.
  2. Raises the maximum fee Notaries may charge for taking a deposition from $30 to $35.
  3. Raises the maximum fee Notaries may charge for administering the oath or affirmation for a deposition from $7 to $12.
  4. Raises the fee for the certificate to a deposition from $7 to $12.
  5. Raises the maximum fee Notaries may charge for certifying a copy of a power of attorney from $15 to $20.
Analysis

California Assembly Bill 1597, authored by Assembly Member Leticia Castillo, raises the maximum fees California Notaries may charge for core notarial services: acknowledgments and proofs of deeds increase from $15 to $20 per signature, jurats from $15 to $20, deposition services from $30 to $35 (with the associated oath-to-witness and deposition-certificate fees each rising from $7 to $12), and certified copies of powers of attorney under Probate Code Section 4307 from $15 to $20. The bill leaves untouched the longstanding prohibitions on charging fees to notarize vote-by-mail ballot materials and applications for U.S. military veterans’ benefits. The fee increase is grounded in legislative findings that recent inflation and rising costs of supplies, transportation, insurance, and continuing education have made a fee adjustment necessary to preserve access to notarial services — the first increase to these statutory caps in 10 years and a meaningful recalibration that helps Notaries recover ground lost to cost inflation.

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