Indiana Senate Bill 199 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)
Status: Engrossed on February 5 2020 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-25 - Referred to the Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
Pending: House Ways and Means Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [PDF]

Recovery of litigation expenses. Provides that attorney's fees may be awarded against a governmental entity in a case where a court finds that the claim brought by the governmental entity was frivolous, unreasonable, or groundless, but provides that the application of the law to governmental entities may not be interpreted to waive sovereign immunity. Includes individuals in the list of parties that may seek reasonable fees and expenses in a civil suit against a state agency. Increases the amount of fees and expenses awarded against a state agency from $10,000 to $25,000, and from $30,000 to $75,000, if more than three parties in a case are eligible for an award.

Recovery of litigation expenses.

Sen. Eric Koch [R]	Sen. James Buck [R]	Sen. Aaron Freeman [R]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]
Sen. Linda Rogers [R]	Sen. Greg Taylor [D]	Sen. Dennis Kruse [R]	Rep. Gregory Steuerwald [R]

2020-02-24 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 9 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2020-02-04 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 49 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2020-01-30 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-15 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-25	House	Referred to the Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
2020-02-25	House	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2020-02-10	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
2020-02-05	Senate	Referred to the House
2020-02-04	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
2020-02-04	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 143: yeas 49, nays 0
2020-02-03	Senate	Senator Kruse added as coauthor
2020-02-03	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2020-01-30	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2020-01-21	Senate	Senators Rogers and Taylor G added as coauthors
2020-01-21	Senate	Senator Freeman added as third author
2020-01-21	Senate	Senator Buck added as second author
2020-01-16	Senate	Pursuant to Senate Rule 68(b); reassigned to Committee on Appropriations
2020-01-16	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2020-01-14	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2020-01-06	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
2020-01-06	Senate	Authored by Senator Koch

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/199/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/b/3/f/bb3f35d2/SB0199.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/d/f/f/fdffe518/SB0199.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/f/d/d/7fdd5b76/SB0199.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/8/8/0/38800f4e/SB0199.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/a/9/d/da9d39c1/SB0199.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/a/7/5/da758081/SB0199.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/4/7/e/247e3a1e/SB0199.04.COMH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/0/a/e/f0ae57b8/SB0199.01.INTR.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/3/1/1/b311ca08/SB0199.02.COMS.01.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/6/d/c/e6dc4038/SB0199.143_S.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/4/8/d/748dd782/SB0199.03.COMS.00.pdf