An Act To Amend Article 9-A ofthe Uniform Commercial Code
Maine Legislature, Session 126, LD 1384
Committee Amendment CA_A_H333 (House)
Amends: 11 MRSA §9

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to H.P. 985, L.D. 1384, Bill, "An Act To 
Amend Article 9-A ofthe Uniform Commercial Code" 
Amend the bill in Part A by inserting after section 19 the following: 
'Sec. A-20. 11 MRSA §9-1S02, sub-§(3), '(c), as enacted by PL 1999, c. 699, 
Pt. A, §2 and affected by §4, is repealed and the following enacted in its place: 
(c). The record satisfies the requirements for a financing statement in this section, 
but: 
(i) The record need not indicate that it is to be filed in the real property records; 
and 
(ii) The record sufficiently provides the name of a debtor who is an individual if 
it provides the individual name of the debtor or the surname and first personal 
name of the debtor, even if the debtor is an individual to whom section 9-1503, 
subsection (1), paragraph (c-I) applies; and' 
Amend the bill in Part A in section 20 in §9-1503 in subsection (1) in paragraph (b) 
in the 2nd line (page 7, line 38 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "general" and 
inserting the following: 'personal' 
Amend the bill in Part A in section 20 in §9-1503 in subsection (1) by striking out all 
of paragraph (c-l) (page 8, lines 24 to 29 in L.D.) and inserting the following: 
'(c-I). Subject to subsection 7 if the debtor is an individual to whom this State has 
issued a driver's license or nondriver identification card that has not expired, only if 
the financing statement provides the name of the individual that is indicated on a 
driver's license or nondriver identification card; 
(c-2). If the debtor is an individual to whom paragraph (c-l) does not apply, only if 
the fmancing statement provides the individual name of the debtor or the surname 
and first personal name of the debtor; and' 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITIEE AMENDMENT ,/1 "to H.P. 985, L.D. 1384 
Amend the bill in Part A in section 20 in §9-1503 by striking out all of subsection (7) 
(page 9, lines 12 to 15 in L.D.) and inserting the following: 
'(7), If this State has issued to an individual more than one driver's license or 
nondriver identification card of a kind described in subsection (1), paragraph (c-l), the 
one that was issued most recently is the one to which subsection (1), paragraph (c-I) 
refers.' 
Amend the bill in Part A in section 26 in §9-1521 in subsection (2) in the 2nd line 
(page 12, line 9 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "record in a form" and inserting 
the following: 'amendment or information statement in a form' 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or 
section number to read consecutively. 
S~ARY 
This amendment changes the standard for filing the debtor name in a secured 
transaction when the debtor is an individual. The National Conference of Commissioners 
on Uniform State Laws provided 2 alternatives from which state legislatures were to 
choose when adopting the 2010 Amendments to Revised Article 9 of the Uniform 
Commercial Code. The bill was printed with· Alternative B. This amendment instead 
adopts Alternative A, which provides that if the debtor is an individual to whom this State 
has issued a driver's license or a nondriver identification card and it has not expired, then 
the correct debtor name for the financing statement is the name on the driver's license or 
nondriver identification card. This change is made in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 
11, section 9-1503. A corresponding change is added in Title 11, section 9-1502. 
This amendment corrects a reference to a personal representative. 
This amendment corrects a clerical error in describing the Secretary of State's 
responsibility as the filing office to accept a written amendment or information statement 
in the form or format approved by the International Association of Commercial 
Administrators or adopted by rule by the Secretary of State. 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT