suzanne walsh who chairs a committee on the uniform law commission, an organization which drafts laws it hopes to standardize in all 50 states, is trying to change that. last year, walsh's committee finished drafting a bill called the "fiduciary access to digital assets act," which would give fiduciaries the same rights over online estates as they now have over physical estates. >> fiduciaries, traditionally, have access to everything in admin... especially in administering estates. and that used to mean opening up the mailbox, opening up the file cabinet, rifling through the desk. our act is designed to continue that and facilitate that, given the different nature of the digital assets. >> reporter: the bill was reviewed and enacted by the uniform law commission last july, but it's still up to individual state legislatures to propose it and pass it as law. although the act has been introduced in 18 states, so far only one state, delaware has signed the act into law. however, the act is not without its critics. the general counsel of a washington, d.c.-based group called the state pri