HB2307 HD1

Report Title:

Electronic Transactions

Description:

Permits electronic seals to be used to be used if the law requires a signature or record to be notarized, certified, acknowledged, verified, or made under oath or seal of the person authorized to perform those acts (HB2307 HD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2307
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 489E-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§489E-11[]] Notarization [and], certification, acknowledgment[.], and verification. If a law requires a signature or record to be notarized, certified, acknowledged, verified, or made under oath[,] or seal, the requirement is satisfied if the electronic signature or seal of the person authorized to perform those acts, together with all other information required to be included by other applicable law, is attached to or logically associated with the signature or record."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.