Bill Text: TX SB1600 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a limit on the award of attorney's fees in certain proceedings brought against the state or an agency of the state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-06 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB1600 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1600-Comm_Sub.html
By: Kolkhorst | S.B. No. 1600 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2015; March 23, 2015, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
April 29, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 1; April 29, 2015, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1600 | By: Schwertner |
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relating to a limit on the award of attorney's fees in certain | ||
proceedings brought against the state or an agency of the state. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 37.009, Civil Practice and Remedies | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 37.009. COSTS. (a) Subject to Subsection (b), in a | ||
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and reasonable and necessary attorney's fees as are equitable and | ||
just. | ||
(b) In a proceeding under this chapter in which declaratory | ||
relief is sought against the state or an agency of the state, the | ||
amount of attorney's fees awarded may not exceed $250,000. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a proceeding commenced on or after the effective date of this | ||
Act. A proceeding commenced before the effective date of this Act | ||
is governed by the law applicable to the proceeding immediately | ||
before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in | ||
effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
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