Bill Text: TX HB2125 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the award of attorney's fees and other costs in certain suits involving a groundwater conservation district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-02 - Left pending in committee [HB2125 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2125-Introduced.html
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By: Burns | H.B. No. 2125 |
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relating to the award of attorney's fees and other costs in certain | ||
suits involving a groundwater conservation district. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 36.066, Water Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (g) and adding Subsection (i) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(g) If the district prevails in any suit other than a suit in | ||
which it voluntarily intervenes, the district may seek and the | ||
court may [ |
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by Subsection (h), in the same action, recovery for attorney's | ||
fees, costs for expert witnesses, and other costs incurred by the | ||
district before the court. The amount of the attorney's fees shall | ||
be fixed by the court in an amount not to exceed $100,000. | ||
(i) Notwithstanding Section 36.052(a), Subsections (g) and | ||
(h) of this section prevail over any other special law inconsistent | ||
with those subsections unless the other law: | ||
(1) limits an award of attorney's fees in a suit to an | ||
amount less than $100,000; or | ||
(2) prohibits an award of attorney's fees or costs. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
a suit involving a groundwater conservation district that is filed | ||
on or after the effective date of this Act. A suit filed before the | ||
effective date of this Act is subject to the law in effect on the | ||
date the suit is filed, and that law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |