Robert Tennessen Reappointed To NCCUSL Committees
At its 118th Annual Meeting in July 2009, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) reappointed Robert Tennessen to chair the Legislative Committee and to the Executive Committee. Bob was first appointed in 1989 by Governor Rudy Perpich, Chief Justice Peter Popovich and Attorney General Hubert H. Humphrey, III as a Minnesota commissioner to the NCCUSL and has been reappointed by all governors, chief justices and attorneys general for consecutive terms spanning 20 years. Bob was elected to life membership as a commissioner at the annual meeting.
Bob also serves on the committee revising the Model State Administrative Procedures Act, the Financial Institutions and Payment Systems Committee, the Scope & Program Committee and the Uniform Commercial Code Committee.
The Uniform Law Commission comprises more than 350 practicing lawyers, governmental lawyers, judges, law professors, and lawyer-legislators from every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Uniform law commissioners are appointed by their states to draft and promote enactment of uniform laws that are designed to solve problems common to all the states.
After receiving ULC approval, a uniform act is officially promulgated for consideration by the states, and legislatures are urged to adopt it. Since its inception in 1892, the ULC has been responsible for more than 200 acts, among them such bulwarks of state statutory law as the Uniform Commercial Code, the Uniform Probate Code, the Uniform Partnership Act, and the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.
