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Committee advances bill to create legal services retainer and public policy defense fund for attorney general
Summary
The House committee unanimously approved HB513, which creates a legal services retainer fund to segregate agency legal fees and a public policy defense program to pay certain civil litigation costs; the adopted amendment renames the fund to an expendable special revenue fund.
The House Revenue and Taxation Committee on Feb. 18 unanimously adopted an amendment and gave HB513 a favorable recommendation. The bill, as described by its sponsor, would set up a legal services retainer fund to hold agency monies used to pay ongoing legal fees and would establish a public policy defense program to cover civil litigation that meets specified criteria.
Sponsor (unnamed in the hearing record) told the committee the…
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