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2021 SESSION
HB 1856 Estate planning documents; electronic execution, definitions, codifies Uniform Electronic Wills Act.
Introduced by: Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Electronic execution of estate planning documents; Uniform Electronic Wills Act. Permits trusts, advance medical directives, and refusals to make anatomical gifts to be signed and notarized, as appropriate, by electronic means. The bill also codifies the Uniform Electronic Wills Act, which permits a testator to execute a will by electronic means. The Act requires that the will be signed by two witnesses who are in the physical or electronic presence of the testator and acknowledged by the testator and attesting witnesses in the physical or electronic presence of a notary public.
FULL TEXT
- 01/07/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102283D pdf
- 01/29/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21103672D-H1 pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 01/07/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102283D
- 01/07/21 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/26/21 House: Assigned Courts sub: Civil
- 01/27/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/21 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21103672D-H1
- 02/01/21 House: Read first time
- 02/02/21 House: Read second time
- 02/02/21 House: Committee substitute agreed to 21103672D-H1
- 02/02/21 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1856H1
- 02/03/21 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/03/21 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/03/21 House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/03/21 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/21 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/04/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N)