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Committee advances three judiciary bills, including changes to court costs and attorney-fee rules
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Summary
In executive session the House Judiciary Committee adopted substitutes and voted to advance House Bills 3,443, 3,304 and 2,865, approving two substitutes and one bill with recorded tallies. Members also removed one item from the executive notice and transitioned to public hearings on other measures.
The House Judiciary Committee voted in executive session to advance three measures on its agenda.
The committee adopted a House Committee amendment and rolled it into a substitute for House Bill 3,443 (Representative Dolan’s bill relating to court costs), and then voted the substitute do pass. The chair announced the result as 11 ayes and 1 no. Committee members also adopted a committee amendment and then a substitute for House Bill 3,304, a measure concerning the offense of keeping a dangerous dog; that substitute likewise passed by roll call, 11–1. Finally, the committee voted House Bill 2,865, related to attorney fees and expenses in civil actions and agency proceedings, as do pass on a unanimous 12–0 vote.
The committee chair said House Bill 2,255 would be removed from the executive notice and the body moved to public hearings on other bills.
The votes will be transmitted per the committee’s usual procedures. No substantive debate was recorded on House Bill 2,865; amendments and detailed discussion occurred on the two bills that received substitutes.
Actions and outcomes recorded by the committee: - House Bill 3,443 — committee substitute adopted and voted do pass (tally: 11 ayes, 1 no). The committee first adopted House Committee Amendment 01H, which adjusted timing language and removed minor numeric references. - House Bill 3,304 — committee substitute adopted and voted do pass (tally: 11 ayes, 1 no). The committee restored statutory language requiring a prior reported bite in certain dangerous-dog offenses and narrowed injury language to "serious physical injury." - House Bill 2,865 — voted do pass (tally: 12 ayes, 0 nos).
The committee’s roll-call tallies were announced from the clerk at the conclusion of the executive session; the chair then opened the meeting’s public hearing portion.
