US Congress Senate Bill 378 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 10-1)
Status: Introduced on February 14 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-14 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Open Book on Equal Access to Justice Act This bill amends the Equal Access to Justice Act and the federal judicial code to require the Administrative Conference of the United States to create and maintain online searchable databases with information about the attorney's fees and other expenses awarded to prevailing parties other than the United States in certain: (1) agency-conducted adversary adjudication proceedings, and (2) civil action court cases (excluding tort cases) or settlement agreements to which the United States is a party. With respect to each award, the information must include: (1) the name of the agency involved, (2) the name of each party to whom the award was made, (3) a description of the claims, (4) the amount of the award, and (5) the basis for finding that the position of the agency concerned was not substantially justified. Under current law, the awards are made unless the position of the agency was substantially justified or special circumstances make an award unjust.

Open Book on Equal Access to Justice Act

Sen. John Barrasso [R-WY]	Sen. Chuck Grassley [R-IA]	Sen. Jeff Flake [R-AZ]	Sen. James Risch [R-ID]
Sen. Michael Enzi [R-WY]	Sen. John McCain [R-AZ]	Sen. Mike Crapo [R-ID]	Sen. Mike Lee [R-UT]
Sen. John Kennedy [R-LA]	Sen. David Perdue [R-GA]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-14	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

HB1033 (Same As) 2017-02-28 - Received in the Senate.
HB3668 (Related) 2017-09-18 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 224.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/378/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s378/BILLS-115s378is.pdf