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2020 SESSION
HB 183 Libraries; assessment for costs in civil actions, disbursement for law libraries.
Introduced by: Mark H. Levine | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Libraries; assessment for costs in civil actions; disbursement for law libraries. Increases from $4 to $7 the maximum assessment a county, city, or town may make as part of the costs incident to each civil action filed in the courts located within its boundaries. Such funds are disbursed by a locality's governing body for the establishment, use, and maintenance of its law library.
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HISTORY
- 12/26/19 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101008D
- 12/26/19 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/17/20 House: Assigned GL sub: Open Government/Procurement
- 01/21/20 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
- 01/23/20 House: Reported from General Laws (17-Y 4-N)
- 01/27/20 House: Read first time
- 01/28/20 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/29/20 House: Read third time and passed House (64-Y 35-N)
- 01/29/20 House: VOTE: Passage (64-Y 35-N)
- 01/30/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/30/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/19/20 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (11-Y 1-N)
- 02/21/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/20 Senate: Read third time
- 02/24/20 Senate: Defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N)
- 02/24/20 Senate: Reconsideration of defeated action agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/20 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/25/20 Senate: Read third time
- 02/25/20 Senate: Defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N)