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Committee hears bill to let Montana designate official electronic legal materials
Summary
A House committee heard House Bill 111, which would allow the co-commissioner’s office to authenticate and designate electronic versions of Montana’s constitution, session laws and Montana Code Annotated as official records while preserving paper copies and requiring verification and backup systems.
The House State Administration Committee heard testimony on House Bill 111 on a bill to adopt the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act, which sponsors say would let the Legislature and its staff designate official electronic versions of Montana’s legal texts and provide ways for the public to verify authenticity.
Representative Steve Fitzpatrick, the sponsor, told the committee the bill’s goal is to “enable the end users of legal materials to verify the trustworthiness of the legal material” and to set procedures for preserving and authenticating online law so older…
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