NY S08501

Establishes the New York Electronic Wills Act, creating Part 6 of Article 3 of the Estates, Powers and Trusts Law to authorize execution of wills in electronic format.

Requires electronic wills to be readable as text at signing and signed by the testator or another person under the testator's direction, with either two state-resident witnesses in physical or electronic presence or acknowledgment before a notary public authorized to notarize records electronically.

Permits notaries public located outside New York State to notarize electronic wills, notwithstanding existing Executive Law restrictions.

Allows electronic wills to be simultaneously executed, attested, and made self-proving through testator acknowledgment and witness affidavits before an officer authorized to administer oaths, with certificate affixed to the electronic will.

Permits revocation of electronic wills by subsequent will or by physical act with testator intent, and allows creation of certified paper copies by affirming under penalty of perjury that the paper copy is complete and accurate.