republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/151/sb-262.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 20 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REVISED UNIFORM LAW ON NOTARIAL ACTS.	This Act adopts the Uniform Law Commission’s (“ULC”) Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts (“Revised Uniform Law”). As our State continues to recover from COVID-19, chief among the changes in the Revised Uniform Law relevant to our State’s current situation are those that permit notarial acts to be performed for a remotely located individual, an individual who is not in the physical presence of the individual performing the notarial act. These revisions include recent amendments made by the ULC to respond to areas the law needed to address that were discovered during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the need to have tangible documents ink-signed and notarized and the administration of oaths taken by remotely located individuals. Adoption of this Act will expand on Governor Carney’s authorization for remote notarization to be performed by licensed Delaware attorneys, codified in § 3156 of Title 20, by allowing all notarial officers authority to perform remote notarization.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	151	SB 262	Delaware SB 262 (151)	bill		enacted	Ernesto B. Lopez Jesse R. Vanderwende Stephanie L. Hansen	2	11	2	2022-04-12	2022-09-09	openstates	ocd-bill/7bf5e204-3f47-4e75-b7ab-36e5e480293d	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109348	ae58da9cb14087a44ae8841b9d2d9f2bf0b8a344794f8a73f32ef5b642876bfe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 262 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 20 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REVISED UNIFORM LAW ON NOTARIAL ACTS.

This Act adopts the Uniform Law Commission’s (“ULC”) Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts (“Revised Uniform Law”). As our State continues to recover from COVID-19, chief among the changes in the Revised Uniform Law relevant to our State’s current situation are those that permit notarial acts to be performed for a remotely located individual, an individual who is not in the physical presence of the individual performing the notarial act. These revisions include recent amendments made by the ULC to respond to areas the law needed to address that were discovered during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the need to have tangible documents ink-signed and notarized and the administration of oaths taken by remotely located individuals. Adoption of this Act will expand on Governor Carney’s authorization for remote notarization to be performed by licensed Delaware attorneys, codified in § 3156 of Title 20, by allowing all notarial officers authority to perform remote notarization.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
2. SA 2 to SB 262 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 41–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ernesto B. Lopez — primary (person)
• Jesse R. Vanderwende — primary (person)
• Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
• Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2022-04-12 Introduced and Assigned to Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-05-04 Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-08 Amendment SA 1 to SB 262 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-21 Amendment SA 2 to SB 262 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2022-06-22 Amendment SA 1 to SB 262 - Stricken in Senate
• 2022-06-22 Amendment SA 2 to SB 262 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES amendment-passage
• 2022-06-22 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2022-06-23 Assigned to Administration Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2022-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES passage
• 2022-09-09 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7bf5e204-3f47-4e75-b7ab-36e5e480293d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).