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FAQ - Traveling Notary Open 24 7 Credit Cards accepted

Notary Summer Games: The Torch Is Lit, Games To Begin On Facebook On 7/30

Notary Summer Games: The Torch Is Lit, Games To Begin On Facebook On 7/30: In recognition of the 27th Summer Olympics in London, the National Notary Association will host its own Notary Summer Games beginning Monday, July 30. Each business day, a question involving some issue in notarial history, i.e. individuals who have made an impact, regulations, duties, signings and more will be featured on the NNA's Facebook page.

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Texas Enacts Expansive New Health Privacy Law

Last month, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed a health privacy bill into law that imposes new obligations exceeding the requirements in the HIPAA Privacy Rule.  The law, which will become effective on September 1, 2012, incorporates the expanded definition of the term “covered entity” in Texas’s existing health privacy law and could have a broad impact on many non-HIPAA covered entities.
Under the Texas law, the term “covered entity” includes any entity that engages in “assembling, collecting, analyzing, using, evaluating, storing, or transmitting protected health information,” as well as any entity that “comes into possession of” or “obtains or stores” protected health information (“PHI”).  Notably, the new Texas health privacy law:

• Requires all employees of covered entities to undergo training on HIPAA and Texas’ health privacy law within 60 days of hiring (and at least once every 2 years);
• Bans the disclosure of PHI for remuneration, except that covered entities may disclose PHI to other covered entities for treatment, payment, health care operations, insurance or HMO functions, or as authorized or required by federal or state law;
• Requires covered entities to provide notice to individuals that their PHI is subject to electronic disclosure and obtain authorization for any electronic disclosure of PHI (apart from disclosures of PHI to other covered entities for treatment, payment, health care operations, insurance or HMO functions, or as authorized or required by federal or state law);
• Mandates that health care providers provide individuals with access to their PHI within 15 days of their request;
• Authorizes the Texas Attorney General, Texas Health Services Authority or Texas Department of Insurance to conduct compliance audits of covered entities that have consistently violated the Texas law; and
• Obligates the Texas Health Services Authority to develop privacy and security standards for the electronic sharing of PHI.

Read the text of H.B. 300.

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New Virginia Law Prompts Worlds First Online Legal Notarization

New Virginia Law Prompts World's First Online Legal Notarization: For the first time in U.S legal history, an online notarization has taken place online. A signer located in Los Angeles, California personally appeared before a notary located in Richmond, Virginia using audio-video conference technology under the authority of a Virginia law that went into effect today.