l9n/ Connecticut

2011 Regular Session

House Bill 6477

AN ACT CONCERNING THE UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE OF LAW BY NOTARIES PUBLIC AND THE OUTSOURCING OF THE DRAFTING, REVIEW OR ANALYSIS OF LEGAL DOCUMENTS.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Judiciary Committee on April 4, 2011. The 2011 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To clarify that notaries public who are not attorneys may not offer legal assistance in immigration matters or convey the impression that they are attorneys by the use of certain titles, to provide that outsourcing of legal document review to nonattorneys constitutes the unauthorized practice of law and to increase the penalty for the unauthorized practice of law.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

1 co-sponsor

Patricia A. Dillon

Its course

February 24 to April 4, 2011, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action2 actions on 2 days

In the House of RepresentativesFeb 24 to Apr 4 · stopped39 days

Judiciary CommitteeFeb 24 to Apr 4 · stopped39 days

Text

Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Feb 24 – Apr 4

  1. Introduced and sent to Judiciary Committee
  2. Heard in Judiciary Committee
All 2 actions, as published