House of Delegates Resolutions

The ABA's policymaking body will meet Feb. 6 at the Midyear Meeting  in New Orleans to debate and vote on a wide range of policy issues. This page will be updated as the House acts.

600
Status: Adopted
Urges creation of policies and practices to improve the treatment of persons living with dementia who are involved in the criminal justice system.

601
Status: Adopted
Grants approval to two programs, reapproval to 14 programs, withdraws the approval of seven programs at the requests of the institutions, and extends the term of approval to 51 programs.

602
Status: Adopted
Grants reaccreditation to the Medical Professional Liability program of the American Board for Professional Liability Attorneys, the Elder Law program of the National Elder Law Foundation, and the Privacy Law program of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and recommends extending the term of accreditation of the Legal Professional Liability Law program of the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys until the adjournment of the House of Delegates meeting in August 2023.

603 (w/video)
Status: Adopted
Urges federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments to enact statutes, rules and regulations that would make it unlawful for any person, other than law enforcement, to possess firearms on property owned, operated, or controlled by any public or private institute of higher education; and in states that do not make it unlawful for any person, other than law enforcement, to possess firearms on property owned, operated, or controlled by any public institute of higher education, authorize such institutions of higher education to restrict or regulate the concealed or open carry of firearms on their campuses.

604 (w/video)
Status: Adopted
Urges organizations that design, develop, deploy, and use artificial intelligence (“AI”) systems and capabilities to follow certain guidelines and urges Congress, federal executive agencies, the Courts, and State legislatures and regulators, to follow these guidelines in legislation, legal decisions, and standards pertaining to AI.

605 (w/video)
Status: Adopted
Urges all federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal legislative bodies, and governmental agencies to adopt laws and policies that ensure that state separation-of-powers principles, established in state constitutions, and the structures to support those principles, apply with full force to state regulation of the elections of members of Congress.

606 (w/video)
Status: Adopted
Encourages state and territorial bar licensing entities to eliminate from applications required for admission to the bar any questions that ask about sexual orientation or gender identity and to eliminate processes that could lead to unintended disclosure of sexual orientation or gender identity without explicit consent from the applicant.

300 (video)
Status: Failed
Concurs in the action of the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar in making amendments dated February 2023 to Standards 501 and 503 of the ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools.

400 (video)
Status: Adopted
Urges the Supreme Court of the United States to adopt a code of judicial ethics.

401 (w/video)
Status: Adopted
Supports the adoption of a bench card addressing best practices for judges in “using LGBTQ+ inclusive language and pronouns” in courtrooms.

402
Status: Adopted
Urges federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments to remove racial and ethnic bias symbols of the Confederate States of America and depictions of Confederate leaders in certain public areas.

500
Status: Adopted as Revised
Reaffirms 82A123, opposing federal agencies adopting standards of practice to govern the professional conduct of attorneys on the basis that those attorneys represent clients subject to the agencies’ regulation, and supports Recommendation 2021-9 of the Administrative Conference of the United States, which provides best practices for agencies, if they choose to adopt rules necessary to maintain order in or to assure the integrity of their adjudicative proceedings.

501 (w/video)
Status: Adopted
Urges the American Bar Association to adopt and support the report of the Criminal Justice Section’s Women in Criminal Justice Task Force on ten principles to advance the goal of gender equity among employers, institutions and people who are part of the criminal legal profession.

502
Status: Adopted
Urges all governmental entities and organizations to eliminate the use of stigmatizing and inhumane labels to refer to people who are or have been involved in the criminal legal system.

503 (w/video)
Status: Adopted as Revised
Urges the Secretaries of State, and all Competent Authorities that issue apostilles in the United States, who have not yet implemented the e-APP program, which includes e-Apostilles and e-Registers, to proceed with such implementation in order to reduce costs and facilitate cross-border commerce.

504
Status: Withdrawn
Adopts policy supporting a determination that the display right should be treated as distinct and separate from the other exclusive rights granted copyright holders under the Copyright Act, particularly the rights of reproduction and distribution.

505 (w/video)
Status: Adopted
Adopts the American Bar Association Best Practices for Remote Depositions, dated February 2023.

506 (w/video)
Status: Adopted as Revised
Condemns the unlawful invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation; urges the Russian Federation to: (i) respect the law of war; and (ii) immediately cease hostilities; urges the United Nations Secretary General to develop a comprehensive set of proposals for ensuring accountability by legal and physical persons; urges the United Nations General Assembly to:
(i) establish a registry of claims and evidence of damages caused by the Russian Federation; and (ii) request all states to maintain the status of any assets of the Russian Federation or its citizens that have been frozen until all claims are resolved.

507 (w/video)
Status: Adopted
Condemns laws, restrictions, and other measures placed on civil society actors that are inconsistent with international law.

508 (w/video)
Status: Adopted
Urges all Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime to adopt a wildlife crime protocol that would: (1) define the term “wildlife crime”; (2) identify the measures that Parties would be called upon to adopt in their domestic laws to prevent and combat wildlife crime; and  (3)  identify  measures  that  would enhance  cooperative  global  enforcement efforts to prevent and combat wildlife crime.

509
Status: Adopted
Urges Congress and the United States Department of Agriculture to incentivize the safeguarding of the environment, human health, food safety, animal welfare and farmers by providing natural disaster preparedness training and guidance to farmers and other animal producers who seek federal government payments including, but not limited to, those through the Livestock Indemnity Program.

510
Status: Withdrawn
Urges federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments to amend existing laws and/or enact new laws to provide a refundable personal income tax credit for qualified lower-income renters and tenants.

511 (w/video)
Status: Adopted
Opposes all federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal legislation, regulation, and agency policy that attempts to impose medical or surgical intervention on  minors  with  intersex  traits  (also  known  as variations  in  sex  characteristics) without the minor’s informed consent or assent, and urges licensed professionals not to conduct or propose medical or surgical intervention on minors with intersex traits until the minor requests the proposed care, understands the impact of the proposed care as well as alternatives, is provided with affirming psychosocial supports, and gives informed consent or assent, except when immediate life-threatening circumstances require emergency intervention.

512 (w/video)
Status: Adopted
Opposes governmental actions and policies that unreasonably interfere with a person’s abilities to direct their own health care, including their right to refuse unwanted medical treatment and their legally authorized substitute decisionmakers’ rights to refuse medical treatment on their behalf.

513 (w/video)
Status: Adopted
Opposes federal, state, local, territorial, or tribal legislation and regulations that restrict the right of any individual to travel interstate to access medical care.

514 (w/video)
Status: Adopted as Revised
Condemns antisemitism and proposes certain ameliorating measures to combat it.

515 (w/video)
Status: Adopted
Urges members of the judiciary to implement policies supporting the participation of junior lawyers in courtroom proceedings, including junior lawyers who contributed to drafting, by allowing multiple attorneys to argue for a party.

700
Status: Withdrawn
Approves the Uniform Alcohol Direct-Shipping Compliance Act promulgated by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws as an appropriate Act for those states desiring to adopt the specific substantive law suggested therein.

701
Status: Adopted
Approves the Uniform Commercial Code 2022 Amendments promulgated by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws as appropriate for those states desiring to adopt the specific substantive law suggested therein.

702
Status: Adopted
Approves  the  Uniform  Electronic  Estate  Planning  Documents  Act promulgated by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws as an appropriate Act for those states desiring to adopt the specific substantive law suggested therein.

703
Status: Withdrawn
Approves the Uniform Telehealth Act promulgated by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws as an appropriate Act for those states desiring to adopt the specific substantive law suggested therein.

704 (w/video)
Status: Adopted
Supports reasonable and appropriate legislation and related regulations to ensure that adequate, accurate, and timely entity beneficial ownership information can be obtained or accessed in a timely fashion by authorized government authorities and financial institutions for detecting, deterring, and  combating  money  laundering,  terrorist  financing,  corruption, kleptocracy, human rights violations, including human trafficking, forced labor and modern slavery, and U.S. national security violations.