The Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act — formerly called The Authentication and Preservation of State Electronic Legal Materials Act — will be considered by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) at their upcoming annual meeting, on 7 July 2011, in Vail, Colorado. The Act would establish uniform legal standards for the authentication and preservation of U.S. state legal information in digital formats.
The chair of the drafting committee for the Act is Michele L. Timmons, the Revisor of Statutes for the State of Minnesota, and the committee’s reporter is Professor Barbara A. Bintliff of the University of Texas School of Law.
Click here for the meeting agenda.
Click here for the current draft of the Act and the memo describing it.
Click here for earlier drafts of the Act and related documents.
RT @uniformlaws: Uniform Electronic Legal Materials Act approved by ULC by vote of states 45 in favor, 1abstention and 7 states not voting