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House Commerce Committee votes to report H.206 after adding directive to include UCC official comments in Green Book
Summary
The Livermore House Committee on Commerce & Economic Development on March 11 voted to report H.206 to the House floor as amended to add a section directing that official Uniform Commercial Code comments be included in the committee’s Green Book; committee counsel said the change does not alter the law itself.
The Livermore House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development voted March 11 to report House Bill H.206 to the full House after approving an amendment that directs insertion of official Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) comments into the committee’s Green Book.
Rick Sagle, legislative counsel in the Office of the Legislative Counsel, told the committee the added language — proposed as a new Section 11a — would require publication of the UCC’s official comments alongside the statute text in the Green Book, the committee’s reference compilation. Sagle said the move is editorial and “is not really changing the law. This is just telling ... that we must include the official comments in the UCC Green Book,” language he said helps readers understand legislative intent though the comments are not themselves law.
The amendment…
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