Uniform Law Commission
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Contact: Michael Kerr, ULC Legislative Director, michael.kerr@nccusl.org
Katie Robinson, ULC Communications Officer, katie.robinson@nccusl.org
NEW DRAFTING AND STUDY COMMITTEES TO BE APPOINTED
August 1, 2009 — At its 2009 Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Executive Committee of the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) authorized the appointment of two new drafting committees and two new study committees.
The new drafting committees are:
Drafting Committee on Authentication and Preservation of State Electronic Legal Materials
This drafting committee will draft an act requiring that state online legal materials be secured and authenticated and preserved for permanent public access. The committee will review possible application to state administrative codes and registers, state statutes and session laws, and state appellate and supreme court opinions, as well as the impact of copyright practices and the conversion and destruction of original source materials.
Drafting Committee on Visitation and Custody Issues Affecting Military Personnel and Their Families
This drafting committee will prepare an act that provides standards and procedures for resolving visitation and custody issues affecting military personnel and their families, which may include resolution of matters in intrastate, interstate, and international contexts.
The new study committees are:
Study Committee on an Act on “Mareva Injunctions”
This study committee will consider and make recommendations concerning the need for and feasibility of drafting a uniform act that provides authority for Mareva Injunctions – freezing orders – entered in one jurisdiction that would prevent a defendant in litigation pending in another jurisdiction from transferring assets until the outcome of the associated lawsuit is settled.
Study Committee on a Mortgage Subrogation Act
This committee will consider and make recommendations concerning the need for and feasibility of drafting a uniform act that makes it clear that a mortgagee of a re-financed mortgage is subrogated to the rights and priority of the original mortgagee.
Drafting committees, composed of commissioners, with participation from observers, advisors and reporter-drafters, meet throughout the year. Tentative drafts are not submitted to the entire Commission until they have received extensive committee consideration.
Proposed acts are subjected to rigorous examination and debate before they become eligible for designation as ULC products. The final decision on whether an act is ready for promulgation to the states is made near the close of an annual meeting, on a vote by states basis, with an affirmative vote of twenty or more states necessary for final approval.
The Uniform Law Commission, now in its 118th year, provides states with non-partisan, well-conceived and well-drafted legislation that brings clarity and stability to critical areas of state statutory law. The organization comprises more than 300 lawyers, judges, and law professors, appointed by the states as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, to research, draft and promote enactment of uniform state laws in areas of state law where uniformity is desirable and practical. Since its inception in 1892, the group has promulgated more than 200 acts, among them such bulwarks of state statutory law as the Uniform Commercial Code, the Uniform Probate Code, and the Uniform Partnership Act.
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