COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA

JOINT COMMISSION ON TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE

DELEGATE KENNETH R. PLUM, CHAIR
SENATOR PATRICIA S. TICER, VICE CHAIR

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To: Members of Advisory Committee #5,
CC: Delegates Diamonstein and May, Co-Chairs
From: John S. Jung, Staff Attorney, JCOTS
Date: October 27, 1999
Re: November 4, 1999, Meeting

Dear Members of Advisory Committee #5:

This memorandum is to remind you of Advisory Committee #5's upcoming meeting and to inform you of the meeting format. As you are aware, Advisory Committee #5 will meet in Richmond on November 4, 1999, at 1:30 p.m. in House Room C of the General Assembly Building, 910 Capitol Street.

At this meeting, the Advisory Committee will consider the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) and the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA). Due to the controversial nature of UCITA, the Co-Chairs of Advisory Committee #5, Delegates Diamonstein and May, and the Commission staff have devised a meeting format that the Advisory Committee will follow. Because this meeting will be an opportunity for the Advisory Committee members to discuss UETA and UCITA, you may want to review the bills before the meeting and to bring copies with you. This meeting will not be a public hearing; however, a second meeting, which will be a public hearing, will be scheduled.

First, the Commission staff will present the bill draft of UETA to the Advisory Committee. Because UETA does not appear to be controversial and because UETA is comparatively short, the Commission staff has drafted UETA in a Virginia legislation format. Copies of the bill and its summary are enclosed with this memorandum and posted on the Commission's website. To retrieve the copies from the Internet, please proceed to and follow the links to the Advisory Committee's webpage.

When the Commission staff presents UETA, the Advisory Committee members will have the opportunity to ask questions and make recommendations to be considered for incorporation into the final version of the bill.

The bulk of the meeting will be spent on discussing UCITA. A copy of UCITA, in its original format as drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL), can be accessed from the Internet. A link to UCITA on NCCUSL's website is provided on the Advisory Committee's webpage. You can also retrieve UCITA directly from NCCUSL by proceeding to .http://www.law.upenn.edu/bll/ulc/ucita/cita10st.htm

To accommodate UCITA's aforementioned complexities, the presiding Co-Chair will call each section of UCITA starting with section one. If there is no objection to the called section, the Co-Chair will move on to the next section. If there is an objection to a section, the Advisory Committee members will discuss the section. During this portion of the meeting, parliamentary rules will be followed.

I hope this memorandum was helpful in answering your questions regarding the format of the November 4 meeting. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. I look forward to working with you.

Yours truly,

John S. Jung,
Staff Attorney, JCOTS

enclosure

DELEGATE ALAN A. DIAMONSTEIN
DELEGATE WILLIAM W. BENNETT, JR.
DELEGATE JOE T. MAY
DELEGATE HARRY R. PURKEY

SENATOR JANET D. HOWELL
SENATOR STEPHEN D. NEWMAN
SENATOR EDWARD L. SCHROCK