An Act ensuring transparency in property deed requests

This bill requires Massachusetts property record offices (like the secretary of state or county registers of deeds) to notify property owners by mail when someone requests to view their property deed. It mandates that this notification must be sent within 10 business days of the request being made. The law directly affects all property owners in Massachusetts by giving them advance notice of third-party access to their deed records. The key mechanism is a new requirement for offices to maintain a record of all such requests and send written alerts to owners. This creates transparency around who accesses property records, without changing the underlying process for requesting deeds.