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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 20 AND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE REVISED UNIFORM LAW ON NOTARIAL ACTS."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "151"
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identifier: "SB 262"
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citation: "Delaware SB 262 (151)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Ernesto B. Lopez", "Jesse R. Vanderwende", "Stephanie L. Hansen"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 11
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2022-04-12"
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last_action: "2022-09-09"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7bf5e204-3f47-4e75-b7ab-36e5e480293d"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=109348"
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source_hash: "ae58da9cb14087a44ae8841b9d2d9f2bf0b8a344794f8a73f32ef5b642876bfe"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# 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.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=109348&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB262)
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2. **SA 2 to SB 262** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=129790&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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- SM — **41–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Ernesto B. Lopez — primary (person)
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- Jesse R. Vanderwende — primary (person)
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- Stephanie L. Hansen — primary (person)
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- Brian Pettyjohn — cosponsor (person)
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- Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
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- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
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- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
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- Ronald E. Gray — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-04-12** Introduced and Assigned to Legislative Oversight & Sunset Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-05-04** Reported Out of Committee (Legislative Oversight & Sunset) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-06-08** Amendment SA 1 to SB 262 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2022-06-21** Amendment SA 2 to SB 262 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2022-06-22** Amendment SA 1 to SB 262 - Stricken in Senate
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- **2022-06-22** Amendment SA 2 to SB 262 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
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- **2022-06-22** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2022-06-23** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-29** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
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- **2022-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `passage`
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- **2022-09-09** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7bf5e204-3f47-4e75-b7ab-36e5e480293d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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