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House concurs with Senate on school‑liability bill that raises liability standard, adds fee‑shifting
Summary
The House concurred with Senate amendments to House Bill 46 23, a measure that changes liability standards in school litigation to gross negligence/recklessness/intentional misconduct and alters prevailing‑party attorney fee provisions to a loser‑pays model, according to the sponsor.
The Texas House on a recorded vote concurred with Senate amendments to House Bill 46 23, a school‑liability measure whose Senate changes increased the plaintiff’s burden and adopted a ‘‘loser pays’’ attorney‑fees provision, sponsors said on the floor.
Representative Little, the sponsor, told members the Senate modified the bill to raise the standard of liability to gross negligence,…
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