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1996 SESSION
HB 1267 Administrative Process Act; recovery of attorneys' fees.
Introduced by: S. Vance Wilkins, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Administrative Process Act; recovery of attorneys' fees. Removes the requirement that an agency has to be found to have acted unreasonably in order for a prevailing party who contested an agency action to recover reasonable costs and attorneys' fees limited to $75 per hour up to a maximum of $25,000.
FULL TEXT
- 01/22/96 House: Presented & ordered printed 960330488 pdf
- 02/13/96 House: Printed as engrossed 960330488-E pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/22/96 House: Presented & ordered printed 960330488
- 01/22/96 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/02/96 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/96 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/05/96 House: Assigned to General Laws sub-committee: 2
- 02/11/96 House: Reported from General Laws with amd. (11-Y 10-N)
- 02/11/96 House: Read first time
- 02/12/96 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/12/96 House: Constitutional readings dispensed
- 02/13/96 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/13/96 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/13/96 House: Printed as engrossed 960330488-E
- 02/13/96 House: Passed House (59-Y 39-N)
- 02/13/96 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (59-Y 39-N)
- 02/13/96 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/15/96 Senate: Read first time
- 02/15/96 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/28/96 Senate: Continued to 1997 in General Laws (12-Y 3-N)