Florida Senate Bill 1654 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 14 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-03-14 - Died in Education
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requiring an award of attorney fees and costs to a district school board in any civil or administrative proceeding in which the district school board was the prevailing party over a state agency, regardless of which party initiated the action; authorizing a state agency to oppose the application by affidavit; requiring an evidentiary hearing on an application for an award of attorney fees and costs to be promptly conducted by a court or an administrative law judge, as applicable; prohibiting an award of attorney fees and costs to be made in any case in which a state agency was a nominal party, etc.

Award of Attorney Fees and Costs in Actions Involving District School Boards

Sen. Gary Farmer [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-03-14	Senate	Died in Education
2022-03-12	Senate	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2022-01-18	Senate	Introduced
2022-01-12	Senate	Referred to Education; Judiciary; Appropriations
2022-01-06	Senate	Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
57	116		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1654
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1654/BillText/Filed/HTML