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MN Senate File 3602

Legislation

State: Minnesota
Signed: April 14, 2026

Effective: August 01, 2026
Chapter: 45

Summary

Minnesota enacts the Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act, authorizing estate documents to be signed and notarized with electronic signatures.

Affects

Creates as yet uncodified new sections in new Chapter 533 of the Minnesota Statutes.

Changes
  1. Defines terms, including “electronic,” “sign,” and “nontestamentary electronic estate planning document” as specified.
  2. Excludes from the definition of “nontestamentary electronic estate planning document” a deed of real property or certificate of title for a motor vehicle, watercraft, or aircraft.
  3. Provides that a non-testamentary estate planning document or a signature on a non-testamentary estate planning document may not be denied legal effect or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form.
  4. Provides that if other laws of Minnesota require a non-testamentary estate planning document to be in writing, an electronic record of the document satisfies such requirement.
  5. Provides that if the laws of Minnesota require a signature or record to be notarized, acknowledged, verified, or made under oath, the requirement is satisfied with respect to an electronic non-testamentary estate planning document if an individual authorized to perform the notarization, acknowledgment, verification, or oath attaches or logically associates the individual's electronic signature on the document together with all other information required to be included under law. 
Analysis

Minnesota is the latest state to enact the Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act published by the Uniform Law Commission to facilitate the use of electronic estate planning documents and signatures. Under the Act, electronic non-testamentary estate planning documents or signatures cannot be denied legal effect solely because they are electronic. Any requirement for a non-testamentary estate document, as defined, that must be notarized or witnessed may be satisfied if an individual authorized to perform the notarization, acknowledgment, verification, or oath — including a Notary Public —  attaches the individual’s electronic signature on the document alongside other required information.

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