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Statutory Revision Panel introduces bill to move buried definitions into definition sections
Summary
The Statutory Revision Committee voted to introduce a draft bill that relocates definitions placed inside statute text into formal definition sections to make them easier to find; drafters said the change makes no substantive policy changes.
Kristen Forrestal, attorney with the Office of Legislative Legal Services, told the Statutory Revision Committee that the draft bill would move “hidden definitions to a definition section that already exists or created a definition section for the definitions that were buried in the body of the statutes.”
Forrestal said the draft does not make substantive policy changes: “It's not…
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