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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 487

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Relating to: requiring the Department of Justice to provide information to the Joint Committee on Finance relating to civil litigation.

Court — Procedure Justice, department of Legislature — Finance, joint committee on

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires the Department of Justice to annually provide the Joint

Committee on Finance with an accounting of expenses related to each civil litigation

matter undertaken by the department in the preceding year.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Berceau (D) , Brostoff (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Considine (D) , Crowley (D) , Genrich (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Kessler (D) , Kolste (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Sargent (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Subeck (D) , Vruwink (D) , Wachs (D)

1 cosponsors

Risser (D)

Full history

  1. Sep 1, 2017 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives C. Taylor, Wachs, Kessler, Kolste, Genrich, Ohnstad, Hebl, Anderson, Considine, Brostoff, Pope, Crowley, Hesselbein, Sargent, Berceau, Vruwink, Spreitzer and Subeck; cosponsored by Senator Risser

  2. Sep 1, 2017 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary

  3. Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1