Bill Text: TX SB851 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the award of attorney's fees and other costs in certain proceedings involving a groundwater conservation district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-24 - Referred to Natural Resources [SB851 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB851-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the award of attorney's fees and other costs in certain proceedings involving a groundwater conservation district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-24 - Referred to Natural Resources [SB851 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB851-Comm_Sub.html
By: Perry | S.B. No. 851 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 15, 2019; March 1, 2019, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Water & Rural Affairs; | ||
April 4, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 4, | ||
Nays 2; April 4, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the award of attorney's fees and other costs in certain | ||
proceedings involving a groundwater conservation district. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 36.066(g), Water Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(g) In a suit to which [ |
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reasonable and necessary[ |
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attorney's fees, costs for expert witnesses, and other costs | ||
incurred by the prevailing party [ |
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court considers equitable and just. The court may not award more | ||
than $250,000 in attorney's fees. [ |
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SECTION 2. Section 36.102(d), Water Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(d) In a [ |
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the district's [ |
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may [ |
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witnesses, and other costs incurred by the prevailing party | ||
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just. [ |
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SECTION 3. Section 36.066(h), Water Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. Sections 36.066(g) and 36.102(d), Water Code, as | ||
amended by this Act, apply only to an action filed on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. An action that is filed before the | ||
effective date of this Act is governed by the law applicable to the | ||
action immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that | ||
law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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