Text: HF00163 Text: HF00165 Text: HF00100 - HF00199 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 HOUSE FILE 164 1 2 1 3 AN ACT 1 4 CONCERNING THE OPEN MEETINGS STATUTE BY PERMITTING THE 1 5 AWARDING OF APPELLATE ATTORNEY FEES FOR A SUCCESSFUL 1 6 ACTION INVOLVING THE STATUTE. 1 7 1 8 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 1 9 1 10 Section 1. Section 21.6, subsection 3, paragraph b, Code 1 11 1999, is amended to read as follows: 1 12 b. Shall order the payment of all costs and reasonable 1 13 attorneys fees in the trial and appellate courts to any party 1 14 successfully establishing a violation of this chapter. The 1 15 costs and fees shall be paid by those members of the 1 16 governmental body who are assessed damages under paragraph "a" 1 17of this subsection. If no such members exist because they 1 18 have a lawful defense under that paragraph to the imposition 1 19 of such damages, the costs and fees shall be paid to the 1 20 successful party from the budget of the offending governmental 1 21 body or its parent. 1 22 1 23 1 24 1 25 RON J. CORBETT 1 26 Speaker of the House 1 27 1 28 1 29 1 30 MARY E. KRAMER 1 31 President of the Senate 1 32 1 33 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and 1 34 is known as House File 164, Seventy-eighth General Assembly. 1 35 2 1 2 2 2 3 ELIZABETH ISAACSON 2 4 Chief Clerk of the House 2 5 Approved , 1999 2 6 2 7 2 8 2 9 THOMAS J. VILSACK 2 10 Governor
Text: HF00163 Text: HF00165 Text: HF00100 - HF00199 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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