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New ULC Study and Drafting Committees to be Appointed

  • 1.  New ULC Study and Drafting Committees to be Appointed

    Posted 27 days ago

    January 16, 2025 - The Executive Committee of the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) has recently authorized the appointment of one new drafting committee and four new study committees.

    The new drafting committee is:

    Drafting Committee on Child Digital Entertainers. This committee will draft a uniform or model act focusing on child entertainers' financial compensation. The committee must seek additional authorization if it wishes to include provisions on the privacy rights of child entertainers.

    The new study committees are:

    Study Committee on Deed Fraud. This committee will study the need for and feasibility of a uniform or model act designed to discourage or prevent deed fraud and to provide effective civil remedies to permit victims to mitigate the financial consequences of deed fraud.

    Study Committee on the Model State Administrative Procedures Act. This committee will study the need for and feasibility of amending or revising the Model State Administrative Procedures Act, which was first drafted in 1946 and was revised in 1961, 1981, and 2010.

    Study Committee on Ownership or Possession of Pets at Family Dissolution and other related issues. This committee will study the need for and feasibility of a uniform or model act on the subject.

    Study Committee on Ownership, Collection, Use, Retention, and Release of Data on Elementary and Secondary Students by Education Technology Companies, Similar Vendors, and Transferees.  This committee will study the need for and feasibility of a uniform or model act on the subject.

    Further information on all current drafting and study committees, as well as information on the Uniform Law Commission, can be found at the ULC's website at www.uniformlaws.org.

    Study Committees review an assigned area of law in light of defined criteria and recommend whether ULC should proceed with a draft on that subject. 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. To receive final approval, an Act must receive the affirmative vote of 30 or more states. The vote by states completes the drafting work, and the act is ready for consideration by the state legislatures.

    The Uniform Law Commission, now in its 134th 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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    Contact:  Katie Robinson, ULC Senior Director, Strategy & Communications, krobinson@... 

    Uniform Law Commission / 111 N. Wabash Ave., Suite 1010, Chicago, IL  60602 / 312-450-6600, www.uniformlaws.org



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    Katie Robinson
    Senior Director for Strategy and Communications
    Chicago IL
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