The U.S. House of Representatives has officially passed H.R. 1059, the SECURE Notarization Act—a bipartisan, MBA-supported bill that establishes federal minimum standards for Remote Online Notarization (RON). This marks a significant milestone in creating a unified national framework to complement…

A bill that would permit immediate nationwide use of remote online notarization was reintroduced in the current session of Congress, after failing to gain traction last year. A number of states have had RON available for several years. Then as…