Legislation
State: West Virginia
Signed: March 31, 2021
Effective: March 23, 2021
Chapter: 174
Summary
Senate Bill 182 provides legislative approval of the Secretary of State’s emergency rules for remote ink signed notarization.
Affects
Approves 153 Code of State Regulations 45.
Changes
- Authorizes the Secretary of State’s emergency rules for remote ink signed notarization.
AnalysisIn West Virginia, the Legislature must approve of administrative rules before they are finally adopted. The Legislature’s approval of the Secretary of State’s rules for remote ink signed notarization during states of emergency like COVID-19 completes a process that began last Spring when the emergency rules were published.
Now that Senate Bill 469 has been signed into law, the approval of the rules for the long term may be moot, since SB 469 also authorizes remote ink signed notarization.
Read Senate Bill 182.