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05/01/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ELdtBUe38/

04/22/2025

Misc. Docket No. 24-9030. Electronic Court Notifications.

02/13/2025

https://landline.media/house-passes-bill-to-extend-beneficial-ownership-information-report-deadline/

While the courts are making beneficial ownership information reporting requirements more confusing, Congress may give businesses some relief.

01/26/2025

https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2025/01/24/boi-reporting-still-voluntary-despite-supreme-court-decision/155071/?

For now, business information ownership reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act remain voluntary despite the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday overturning an order from a Texas federal appeals court in December that had halted mandated BOI report filing with FinCEN.

01/14/2025

Texas Senate Bill 1780 — Effective January 1, 2024. SB 1780 permits online notaries to conduct online notarizations for tangible documents.

Bill Text (2023-05-27) Relating to online notarizations. [Effective on 1/1/24]

11/05/2024

https://www.nationalnotary.org/notary-bulletin/blog/2018/10/notaries-in-the-election-process?utm_campaign=Bulletin_20241104&utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze&utm_content=NotariesElectionProcess&NNAID=161051699

Elections regularly stir up a hornet's nest of controversies and challenges about the notarizations of documents.

08/05/2024

https://www.nationalnotary.org/notary-bulletin/blog/2024/07/new-federal-law-may-require-you-to-file-notary-business-information-by-january-2025-or-sooner?utm_campaign=20240805nnabulletin&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nnabulletin&utm_content=BodyCTANewNotaryBusinessLaw&content_type=6&position=1&NNAID=161051699&fbclid=IwY2xjawEeD0xleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHaIx3Qf_1s7I3yL9fsLGFNG0119m8GSAcjqDhfN2nrno-rXLeIBPeaiWRw_aem_nVnl8XrYC7j7f876NZIt1g

A new federal law requires many Notary businesses to file information with the government by January 2025 or face penalties.

05/30/2024

The Supreme Court of Texas has issued the following advisory:

Misc. Docket No. 24-9030 Final Approval of Amendments to Texas Rules of Civil Procedure 21, 165a, 239a, 246, 297, 298, 299, 299a, and 306a; Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.2; and Rule 2.7 of the Statewide Rules Governing Electronic Filing in Criminal Cases

05/08/2024

https://www.nationalnotary.org/notary-bulletin/blog/2015/09/notary-basics-ensure-certificate-language-compliant?utm_campaign=20240506nnabulletin&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nnabulletin&utm_content=BodyCTACompliantCertificatesTX&content_type=1&position=1&NNAID=161051699

Learn what you should do when given a notarial certificate with wording that is unfamiliar and does not comply with your state’s Notary laws.

12/04/2023

Sample state laws addressing professional conflict of interest.

The Texas Secretary of State’s website advises Notaries not to notarize if the Notary is a party to a document or would benefit in some way from the transaction. The Texas Administrative Code, however, states it is “cause” for the Secretary of State to reject a commission application, revoke the commission of a Notary or take other disciplinary action against a Notary when the Notary notarizes their own signature (1 TAC 87.31[26). However, the state does not have a specific prohibition against notarizing for relatives.

A Notary is not disqualified from performing a notarization if the Notary is an employee of a corporation and takes an acknowledgment or proof of a written document in which the employee’s corporation has an interest. Similarly, a Notary is not disqualified from notarizing corporate documents unless the corporation has 1,000 or fewer shareholders and the Notary owns more than one-tenth of one percent of the corporation’s issued and outstanding stock (Civil Practices and Remedies Code 121.002). Texas Notaries are not disqualified from notarizing solely on the basis of the Notary owning stock in certain trust institutions that are an interested party in the transaction (Texas Finance Code 199.002).

David Thun is the Assistant Managing Editor at the National Notary Association.

08/20/2023

The Texas Department of Insurance has updated its contact information and the inquiries and complaints information from that shown on the notice originally attached to certain insurance policies.

07/17/2023

Notary Tip: 3 differences between acknowledgments and signature witnessings