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| 1 | - | By: Kuempel, Workman (Senate Sponsor - Huffman) H.B. No. 1704 | |
| 2 | - | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2017; | |
| 3 | - | May 4, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on State | |
| 4 | - | Affairs; May 12, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: | |
| 5 | - | Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 12, 2017, sent to printer.) | |
| 6 | - | Click here to see the committee vote | |
| 1 | + | H.B. No. 1704 | |
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| 9 | - | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 10 | 4 | AN ACT | |
| 11 | 5 | relating to the award of court costs and attorney's fees in actions | |
| 12 | 6 | to determine the applicability of certain local government | |
| 13 | 7 | regulations. | |
| 14 | 8 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 15 | 9 | SECTION 1. Section 245.006, Local Government Code, is | |
| 16 | 10 | amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | |
| 17 | 11 | (c) A court may award court costs and reasonable and | |
| 18 | 12 | necessary attorney's fees to the prevailing party in an action | |
| 19 | 13 | under this chapter. | |
| 20 | 14 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | |
| 21 | 15 | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | |
| 22 | 16 | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | |
| 23 | 17 | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | |
| 24 | 18 | Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | |
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| 19 | + | ______________________________ ______________________________ | |
| 20 | + | President of the Senate Speaker of the House | |
| 21 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 1704 was passed by the House on April | |
| 22 | + | 28, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 0, 2 present, not | |
| 23 | + | voting. | |
| 24 | + | ______________________________ | |
| 25 | + | Chief Clerk of the House | |
| 26 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 1704 was passed by the Senate on May | |
| 27 | + | 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | |
| 28 | + | ______________________________ | |
| 29 | + | Secretary of the Senate | |
| 30 | + | APPROVED: _____________________ | |
| 31 | + | Date | |
| 32 | + | _____________________ | |
| 33 | + | Governor |