July 14-15, 2017 | CALIFORNIA COMMISSION ON UNIFORM STATE LAWS

Meeting Notice

California Commission on Uniform State Laws
State Capitol, Room 3021
Sacramento, California 95814
916/341-8005
916/341-8020

Meeting of the California Commission on Uniform State Laws at the Annual Meeting of the Uniform Law Commission, July 14-20, 2017

Date: July 14, 2017 – 12:00-1:30 p.m.

Location: US Grant Hotel, Room Grant A

326 Broadway, San Diego, CA, 92101

Introductions

2017 Annual Dues

3. Final Acts:

Uniform Directed Trust Act
Uniform Criminal Records Accuracy Act
Uniform Protected Series Act
Uniform Parentage Act
Model Veterans Treatment Court Act and Model Veterans Treatment Court Rules
Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act

g. Uniform Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act

4. Proposed Amendment of Article 4 of the ULC Constitution

5. Section 11139.8, Government Code-interstate travel for commissioners

MINUTES

Meeting of the California Commission on Uniform State Laws

July 14, 2017 12:00 Noon

Recessed on July 14, 2017 at 1:30 p.m.

Continued on July 15, 2017 at 5:45 p.m.

Adjourned at 6:00 p.m. on July 15, 2017

U.S. Grant Hotel

San Diego, California

Item 1- Introductions

Present were Commission members Pam Bertani, Diane Boyer-Vine, Marty Carr, Dave Clark, Robert Cornell, Elena Duarte, Elihu Harris, Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, Dan Robbins, Fred Rowley, Byron Sher, and Nathaniel Sterling

Items 2 and 5. Annual Dues/Section 11139.8, Government Code-interstate travel for commissioners

Before discussing the annual dues, the commission discussed the state travel ban under Section 11139.8 of the Government Code. The Office of Legislative Counsel interprets the provision to ban state-funded and state-sponsored travel. Therefore, even if the commissioners fund their own travel, they cannot represent the state at a meeting in a travel-ban state because that would be state-sponsored travel. Commissioners were informed that they could not travel to the 2018 Annual Meeting in Kentucky because Kentucky is a state on the travel ban list.

In the context of the dues, the CCUSL approved the payment of the dues in the amount of $165,300 with a stipulation on the use of the dues related to the travel ban to be developed by the chair, vice chair, and Legislative Counsel.

Vote: 12-0 (Yes: Pam Bertani, Diane Boyer-Vine, Marty Carr, Dave Clark, Robert Cornell, Elena Duarte, Elihu Harris, Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, Dan Robbins, Fred Rowley, Byron Sher, and Nathaniel Sterling).

Item 3. Final Acts

The CCUSL approved adoption by the ULC of the following acts as uniform state laws:

Uniform Directed Trust Act

Uniform Criminal Records Accuracy Act

Uniform Parentage Act

Vote: 11-0 (Yes: Pam Bertani, Diane Boyer-Vine, Marty Carr, Dave Clark, Robert Cornell, Elihu Harris, Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, Dan Robbins, Fred Rowley, Byron Sher, and Nathaniel Sterling). Commissioner Duarte abstained.

Model Veterans Treatment Court Act and Model Veterans Treatment Court Rules

Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act

Uniform Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act

Vote: 11-0 (Yes: Pam Bertani, Diane Boyer-Vine, Marty Carr, Dave Clark, Robert Cornell, Elena Duarte, Elihu Harris, Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, Dan Robbins, Byron Sher, and Nathaniel Sterling). Commissioner Rowley recused himself.

Uniform Protected Series Act

The CCUSL voted to abstain on the adoption by the ULC of the Uniform Protected Series Act.

Item 4. Proposed Amendment of Article 4 of the ULC Constitution

Commissioner Robbins explained the amendment.

The CCUSL approved adoption by the ULC of the amendment.

Vote: 12-0 (Yes. Pam Bertani, Diane Boyer-Vine, Marty Carr, Dave Clark, Robert Cornell, Elena Duarte, Elihu Harris, Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, Dan Robbins, Fred Rowley, Byron Sher, and Nathaniel Sterling).