North Dakota Law Review/Volume 1/Number 3/Legislative

LEGISLATIVE

By the time this issue of Bar Briefs is distributed all legislative proposals sponsored by the State Bar Association of North Dakota will have been presented to the Legislative Assembly in the form of printed bills.

The Legislative Committee has confined its efforts to the presentation of the proposals of the Probate Code Revision Committee. Following the meeting of the Legislative Committee at Bismarck on the 2nd of February, Hon. J. F. T. O’Connor of Grand Forks presented and explained these proposals to the Committee of the State Legislature having them in charge.

The matters presented to the Annual Meeting by the Criminal Law Section were up for further consideration at the conference of State’s Attorneys called by the Attorney General, and were subsequently presented to the Legislature.

Hon. A. G. Burr, Judge of the District Court in the Second District, has in hand the matter of presenting the proposal for the establishment of a Judicial Council, and Hon. Sveinbjorn Johnson, Judge of the Supreme Court, is handling the Re-Compilation Bill.

Individual attorneys have introduced measures of various kinds, seeking to amend the Attorneys’ License and Bar Board Acts, none of which, however, had the endorsement of the Annual Meeting of the Association.

The members of the Association will be interested in knowing that the House of Representatives passed a bill transferring $10,000 from the State Bar Fund to the General Fund of the State; and that the appropriation bill, calling for an appropriation for the Supreme Court Library, of $6,000 was amended so as to provide that this sum, also, should be taken from the State Bar Fund.