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.

PRINTER'S NO. 2605
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2035
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY METZGAR, BURGOS, JAMES AND CEPEDA-FREYTIZ,
NOVEMBER 14, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, NOVEMBER 17, 2025
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.
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
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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
fact; but all and every such grant, bargain and sale, feoffment,
deed of conveyance, release, assignment, mortgage or other
assurance, so made, executed and acknowledged, as aforesaid,
shall be as good, valid and effectual in law for transferring,
passing and conveying the estate, right, title and interest of
such husband and wife of, in and to the lands, tenements and
hereditaments mentioned in the same, as if all the requisites
and particulars of such acknowledgment had been made according
to law, and as if such trustee or attorney in fact had made the
acknowledgment thereto in such capacity; and the record of the
same duly made in the proper office for recording of deeds in
this Commonwealth, and exemplifications of the same duly
certified, shall be legal evidence in all cases in which the
original would be competent evidence.
Section 2. The amendment of section 1 of the act shall not
apply to lawsuits pending on the effective date of this section
and which are undetermined.
Section 3. This act shall take effect January 1, 2026, or in
60 days, whichever is later.
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