Pennsylvania legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Pennsylvania HB2035: An Act amending the act of August 11, 1967 (P.L.205, No.69), entitled "An act to validate conveyances and other instruments which have been defectively acknowledged," extending the date for validation of certain conveyances and other instruments.
Status: In committee, September 8, 2026
What the bill says
An act to validate conveyances and other instruments which have been defectively acknowledged," extending the date for validation of certain conveyances and other instruments.
From the introduced text, November 17, 2025:
An act to validate conveyances and other instruments which have been defectively acknowledged," extending the date for validation of certain conveyances and other instruments. The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows: Section 1. Section 1 of the act of August 11, 1967 (P.L.205, No.69), entitled "An act to validate conveyances and other instruments which have been defectively acknowledged," is amended to read: Section 1. No grant, bargain and sale, feoffment, deed of conveyance, release, assignment, mortgage or other assurance of lands, tenements and hereditaments, whatsoever, bearing date prior to the year two thousand [thirteen] twenty, made, executed and delivered by husband and wife, or by any person or trustee or attorney in fact for any other person or persons, to a bona fide purchaser or purchasers for a valuable consideration, and acknowledged before any officer duly authorized by law to take such acknowledgment, shall be deemed, held or adjudged invalid or defective or insufficient in law by reason of any informality or defect in such acknowledgment as not being made according to law, or because the date of the acknowledgment predates the date of the instrument, or by reason of the acknowledgment thereto having been made by any trustee or attorney in fact in his individual capacity instead of as such trustee or attorney in …
Sponsors
- Carl Metzgar (R, 69) · primary sponsor
- Danilo Burgos (D, 197)
- Robert James (R, 64)
- Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz (D, 129)
Latest actions
- : Laid on the table, Sept. 8, 2026
- : Re-reported as committed, Sept. 8, 2026
- : Re-committed to RULES, June 17, 2026
- : First consideration, June 17, 2026
- : Reported as committed, June 17, 2026
- : Referred to JUDICIARY, Nov. 17, 2025
Votes
- House Judiciary: Report Bill As Committed (June 17, 2026): 26 yea, 0 nay, passed
Subjects: JUDICIARY
Common questions
- What is HB2035?
- HB2035 is a bill in the Pennsylvania Legislature (2025-2026 Regular Session): An Act amending the act of August 11, 1967 (P.L.205, No.69), entitled "An act to validate conveyances and other instruments which have been defectively acknowledged," extending the date for validation of certain conveyances and other instruments.
- What does HB2035 do?
- In its own words: An act to validate conveyances and other instruments which have been defectively acknowledged," extending the date for validation of certain conveyances and other instruments.
- What is the status of HB2035?
- In committee as of September 8, 2026. Latest action: Laid on the table, Sept. 8, 2026 (September 8, 2026).
- Who sponsored HB2035?
- Carl Metzgar (R, 69), with 3 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for HB2035?
- On the Pennsylvania Legislature website: https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/2025/hb2035
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