Melissa K Keseling Mobile Notary Public

12/21/2025

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12/21/2025

12/21/2025

New Texas Notary Laws Effective September 1, 2025
implementation of Senate Bill 693. This law imposes stricter penalties for performing a notarization without the signer’s personal appearance before the notary at the time of notarization and introduces a longer record retention requirement. Together, these updates set new requirements for personal appearance and record retention.

Below is a recap of the new changes, highlighting what every Texas notary needs to know to stay compliant.

1. Criminal Penalty for Notarizing Without the Signer’s Presence

It is a Class A misdemeanor if a Texas notary public performs a notarization knowing that the signer, grantor, maker, or principal for whom the notarization is performed did not personally appear before them at the time the notarization was executed.

However, if the document being notarized involves the transfer of real property or any interest in real property, the offence is a state jail felony.

2. New Notary Record Retention Requirement

Texas notaries must keep their notarial records for 10 years from the date of the notarization. Failure to maintain these records may constitute good cause for the secretary of state to reject an application or suspend or revoke a notary public’s commission.

Upholding the integrity of your notarial acts is essential to protecting the public and maintaining trust in the office of notary public.

12/21/2025

Service
Fee

Protesting a bill or note for non-acceptance or non-payment, register and seal
$ 4.00

Each notice of protest
1.00

Protesting in all other cases
4.00

Certificate and seal to a protest
4.00

Taking the acknowledgment or proof of any deed or other instrument in writing, for registration, including certificate and seal:
(1) for the first signature
10.00

(2) for each additional signature
1.00

Administering an oath or affirmation with certificate and seal
10.00

All certificates under seal not otherwise provided for
10.00

Copies of all records and papers in the Notary Public's office, for each page
1.00

Taking the depositions of witnesses, for each 100 words
1.00

Swearing a witness to a deposition, certificate, seal, and other business connected with taking the deposition
10.00
All notarial acts not provided for
10.00