In June 2007, after participating in AALL’s national summit on Authentic Legal Information in the Digital Age, Minnesota Revisor of Statutes and Uniform Law Commissioner Michele Timmons submitted a proposal to the Uniform Law Commission (ULC), then known as National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL), to create a study committee to explore the complex issues regarding digital authentication. In February 2008, ULC informed AALL that it had approved the Study Committee on Online Authentication of Legal Materials to investigate the issues and discuss the feasibility of creating a uniform law or model act. Timmons was named chair of the Study Committee and Barbara A. Bintliff served as AALL’s observer.
During NCCUSL’s July 2009 annual conference, the Executive Committee unanimously approved the Study Committee’s recommendation to create a Drafting Committee on Authentication and Preservation of Electronic State Legal Materials. Timmons was named chair of the Drafting Committee, Barbara A. Bintliff served as the committee’s reporter, and Keith Ann Stiverson was AALL’s observer. In July 2011, NCCUSL approved the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act at its Annual Meeting in Vail, Colorado.
Study Committee Documents
Drafting Committee Documents
- Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (UELMA) – Final – with prefatory note and comments (October 2011)
- UELMA Approved Text – without prefatory note or comments (July 2011)
- Interim Draft (November 19-20, 2010 Committee Meeting)
- Brief Report from 2010 Annual Meeting (July 2010)
- 2010 Annual Meeting Draft (July 2010)
- Issues Memorandum for 2010 Annual Meeting Draft (June 2010)
- Interim Draft (May 2010)
- Interim Draft (April 2010)
- Interim Draft (March 2010)
- Redline Draft (March 2010)
- Committee Meeting Agenda (March 2010)
- Committee Meeting Issues Memorandum (March 2010)
- Committee Meeting Draft (March 2010)
- Prefatory Note Draft (January 2010)
- Redline Draft (December 2009)
- Conference Call Minutes (October 2009)