House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
SECURE Notarization Act of 2025
Official title: To authorize notaries public to perform, and to establish minimum standards for, electronic notarizations and remote notarizations that occur in or affect interstate commerce, to require any Federal court to recognize notarizations performed by a notarial officer of any State, to require any State to recognize notarizations performed by a notarial officer of any other State when the notarization was performed under or relates to a public Act, record, or judicial proceeding of the notarial officer's State or when the notarization occurs in or affects interstate commerce, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Cliff Bentz R-ORWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 3, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Mar 3, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1777.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. BENTZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 40, March 3, 2025, Page H946):Article I, Section 8, Clause 18Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record March 3, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 31 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1777, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1777
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 1, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of April 1, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
8 cosponsors — 3 Republicans, 5 Democrats
5 of 8 cosponsors (62%) are from the other party.
Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Julie Fedorchak (R-ND), H. Griffith (R-VA), David Kustoff (R-TN), Sarah McBride (D-DE), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Cliff Bentz.
- H.R. 655 (119th) Dalles Watershed Development Act
- H.R. 9827 (119th) Wildfire Reduction Market Expansion Act of 2026
- H.R. 9337 (119th) Hydropower Licensing Affordability Act
- H.R. 5133 (119th) Patients’ Right to Know Their Medication Act of 2025
- H.R. 5171 (119th) Pacific Northwest Gray Wolves Relief Act of 2025
- H.R. 7862 (119th) National Flood Insurance Program Clarification Act of 2026
Related bills
- S. 1561 (119th) SECURE Notarization Act of 2025Identical bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.