US Congress Senate Bill 1061 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)
Status: Introduced on May 25 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-05-25 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Government Litigation Savings Act - Revises provisions of the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) and the federal judicial code relating to the fees and other expenses of parties in agency proceedings and court cases against the federal government to: (1) restrict awards of fees and other expenses under such Act to prevailing parties with a direct and personal monetary interest in an adjudication, including because of personal injury, property damage, or an unpaid agency disbursement; (2) require the reduction or denial of awards commensurate with pro bono hours and related fees and expenses to parties who have acted in an obdurate, dilatory, mendacious, or oppressive manner or in bad faith; (3) limit awards to not more than $200,000 in any single adversary adjudication or for more than three adversary adjudications in the same calendar year (unless the adjudicating officer or judge determines that a higher award is required to avoid severe and unjust harm to the prevailing party); and (4) expand the reporting requirements of the Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States with respect to fees and other expenses awarded to prevailing parties during the preceding fiscal year. Requires the Comptroller General to audit the implementation of EAJA for the years 1995 through the end of the calendar year in which this Act is enacted.

Government Litigation Savings Act

Sen. John Barrasso [R-WY]	Sen. John Boozman [R-AR]	Sen. Tom Coburn [R-OK]	Sen. Mike Crapo [R-ID]
Sen. Michael Enzi [R-WY]	Sen. Orrin Hatch [R-UT]	Sen. Dean Heller [R-NV]	Sen. Kay Hutchison [R-TX]
Sen. James Inhofe [R-OK]	Sen. Mike Lee [R-UT]	Sen. John McCain [R-AZ]	Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R-AK]
Sen. James Risch [R-ID]	Sen. John Thune [R-SD]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-05-25	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

HB1996 (Same As) 2012-07-11 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 429.
SB1720 (Related) 2011-10-18 - Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 203.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/1061/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s1061/BILLS-112s1061is.pdf