Series 25137
INSURANCE CODE TASK FORCE [3187]
BILL DRAFTING AND COMMENT FILES, 1985-1986.
0.7 cu. ft. and 2 microfilm reels
A separate
agency
history is available.
DESCRIPTION: These files document the
review and amendment of Title 31A, Utah Insurance Code by the Insurance Code
Task Force (ICTF) as passed by the Utah State Legislature in SB 232, 1985. The
ICTF review was conducted over an eight month period, from June 1985 to January
of the following year, and culminated in the passing of SB 91, 1986. Unlike the
bill drafting records of the Insurance Law Revision Commission (ILRC), Series
25134, these files include relatively few drafts of actual code chapters.
Instead, they consist primarily of memos and correspondence between task force
members, and between the task force and their staff from the Office of
Legislative Research and General Counsel and the Insurance Department; official
statements by the state Attorney General on proposed amendments; numerous
comments submitted by interested parties; miscellaneous topical references and
notes; relevant statutory law and case law; interim study resolutions; task
force membership lists and interim meeting schedules. One draft of SB 232, 1985
and three of SB 91, 1986 are also included.
This series originally included a copy of the Allen Smith Company
edition of the new insurance code, published June 1985. This edition contained
Title 31A, Utah Code Annotated, plus text and notes covering miscellaneous
other sections enacted by SB 232. In the approved ICTF minutes for 15 July,
1985, Senator Finlinson notes that the edition "contains a handy table of
contents, and helpful notes relative to Section 57, SB 232." Each task force
member received one copy of this publication. Presently, the only piece of this
edition still included in this series is a photocopy of the cover page.
ARRANGEMENT: Arrangement proceeds
numerically by chapter number, thereunder chronologically by year, month, and
day. The compiled drafts follow the bill files and proceed in chronological
order. Within the bill files, documents proceed in chronological order by year,
month and day. Documents which clearly accompany a primary dated document are
filed immediately following the primary document they accompany. This means
some spans of accompanying documents between primary documents will appear out
of strict chronological sequence. Arrangement is chronological according to the
primary dated documents. Undated documents which do not clearly accompany
another primary dated document follow the chronological sequence within their
respective folders in no specific arrangement.
RESEARCH NOTE: Researchers should not
assume continuity in chapter and section numbers between different title
designations as considerable rearrangement did occur. Search the minutes for
references to revised chapter order. Four archives diskettes (4x5 floppy disks)
are included in
Series
25138, Minutes and administrative records, ICTF, and contain various
code drafts from 7/85-11/85, as well as some meeting minutes and schedules.
RELATED RECORDS: INSURANCE LAW REVISION
COMMISSION. MINUTES, 1981-1985,
Series
25136, document the regular and special meetings and activities of the
Insurance Law Revision Commission through its recodification of Title 31, Utah
Insurance Code.
INSURANCE LAW REVISION COMMISSION. ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS,
1981-1985,
Series
25135, document the essential administrative and drafting functions of
the Insurance Law Revision Commission as it recodified Title 31, Utah Insurance
Code.
INSURANCE LAW REVISION COMMISSION. BILL DRAFTING FILES, 1981-1985,
Series
25134, document the recodification of Title 31, Utah Insurance Code as
conducted by the Insurance Law Revision Commission.
INSURANCE CODE TASK FORCE. MINUTES AND ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS,
1985-1986,
Series
25138, document the regular and special meetings and activities of the
Insurance Code Task Force as it reviewed and amended the draft Title 31A, Utah
Insurance Code (enacted by SB 232, 1985) before it became active June 1,
1986.
UTAH. GOVERNOR (1977-1985 : MATHESON). BOARD AND COMMISSION
APPOINTMENT RECORDS, 1969-1984,
Series
219, contains resumes, applications, appointment notices, and
correspondence pertaining to the governor's appointments to the Insurance Law
Revision Commission.
CUSTODY HISTORY: As head staff of the
ILRC and the ICTF, Dane Leavitt maintained the records through most of the
recodification project. At the conclusion of the project in March 1986, the
Insurance Department indicated their plan to discard the records. Recognizing
their value, Mr. Leavitt took the records and stored them in the attic of his
office building in Cedar City, Utah. Over the years continuing interest in the
original intent of the new insurance code brought numerous attorneys and
researchers to Cedar City to review the records. At Mr. Leavitt's bidding, the
Utah State Archives agreed to take custody of the records in September 2002.
Alice Cone and Arlene Schmuland, processing and reference archivists at the
Utah State Archives, traveled to Cedar City in October 2002 and returned with
seven cubic foot boxes and two banker's boxes.
PROCESSING NOTE: Rummaging by numerous
researchers through the documents (over the 15 intervening years before
transfer of custody to the Archives) left the records in a state of
considerable disorder. Through archival processing the records have been
returned to their original arrangement as far as was possible. Michael A.
Church processed this series in the Spring and Summer of 2003. Prior to
transferring the records, Dane Leavitt collected those with "the most probative
value to the research of legislative history" into one box to facilitate such
research. Identified as "Box 1" of the original nine boxes transferred, this
box included the March 25, 1983 initial draft (with extensive drafter's
comments), the minutes of the ILRC and ICTF respectively, and miscellaneous
documents related to SB 232 and its passing. During processing these documents
were returned to their original placement in the records' initial arrangement
and notes were included in the individual series inventories to direct
researchers to their final location.
PREFERRED CITATION: Cite the Utah State
Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and
the series number.
CONTAINER LIST
| Reel |
Box |
Folder |
Description |
| 1 |
1 |
1 |
31A-1, and miscellaneous |
| 1 |
1 |
2 |
31a-2 and 31a-3 |
| 1 |
1 |
3 |
31A-4 and 31A-5 |
| 1 |
1 |
4 |
31A-6, 31A-7, 31A-8, 31A-9 |
| 1 |
1 |
5 |
31A-10, 31A-11, 31A-12, 31A-13, 31A-14 |
| 1 |
1 |
6 |
31A-15, 31A-16, 31A-17, 31A-18, 31A-19,
31A-20 |
| 1 |
1 |
7 |
31A-15, 31A-16, 31A-17, 31A-18, 31A-19, 31A-20
[continued] |
| 1 |
1 |
8 |
31A-21, 31A-22 (parts I-III), 41-12A |
| 1 |
1 |
9 |
31A-22 (parts IV-XIII) Health subcommittee
report |
| 1 |
1 |
10 |
31A-22 (parts IV-XIII) Health subcommittee report
[continued] |
| 1 |
1 |
11 |
31A-23, 31A-24, 31A-25 |
| 1 |
1 |
12 |
31A-26, 31A-27, 31A-28 |
| 1 |
1 |
13 |
Compiled comments |
| 1 |
1 |
14 |
SB232 compiled draft with comments, 1985 |
| 1 |
1 |
15 |
Allen Smith edition of Title 31A, 1985 [cover
only] |
| 1 |
1 |
16 |
SB91 compiled draft, 1985 Dec |
| 1 |
1 |
17 |
SB91 compiled draft, 1986 Jan |
| 1 |
1 |
18 |
SB91 compiled draft, 1986 Jan [continued] |
| 2 |
1 |
19 |
SB91 compiled draft, 1986 |
| 2 |
1 |
20 |
SB91 compiled draft, 1986 [continued] |
