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2003 SESSION

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HB 2273 Legal services to attorneys for the Commonwealth.

Introduced by: Robert Hurt | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)

Legal services to attorneys for the Commonwealth. Provides that the Attorney General may at the request of an attorney for the Commonwealth, provide legal service to such attorney for the Commonwealth in any proceedings brought against him seeking to overturn a criminal verdict or otherwise invalidate part or all of a successful criminal prosecution, regardless of the legal theory of the plaintiff's or petitioner's case. Currently the law provides for such representation of a Commonwealth's Attorney only in a lawsuit seeking to restrain the enforcement of any state law.

FULL TEXT

• 01/08/03  House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/08/03 036718778  pdf
• 02/01/03  House: Committee substitute printed 030380778-H1  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/08/03  House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/08/03 036718778
• 01/08/03  House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/30/03  House: Assigned to C. J. sub-committee: 1
• 01/31/03  House: Reported from C. J. with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
• 02/01/03  House: Committee substitute printed 030380778-H1
• 02/01/03  House: Read first time
• 02/03/03  House: Read second time
• 02/03/03  House: Committee substitute agreed to 030380778-H1
• 02/03/03  House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute 030380778-H1
• 02/04/03  House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
• 02/04/03  House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
• 02/04/03  House: Communicated to Senate
• 02/05/03  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/05/03  Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 02/17/03  Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in C. J. (5-Y 7-N 2-A)