TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 13, 2015

A legislative fix to the state notary laws was signed by Gov. Haslam last week. The bill, SB888/HB1033, clarifies that notaries public who do not charge a fee for services do not have to keep a record of their dealings, and that the records of notaries who are bank employees are governed by bank privacy laws. An attorney general’s opinion last year, which interpreted a 2014 change to the statute to classify notary records as public documents, caused some concern in the legal community. The effective date of the bill is April 6.