A bill to reinstate the reporting provision relating to fees and expenses awarded to prevailing parties in civil actions involving the United States.

3.0.0 2042 2019-11-15T21:55:24Z 2019-11-15T21:55:24Z Senate S S 2012-01-30 112 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2012-01-30T21:50:31Z 2012-01-30 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2012-01-30 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress T000464 Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT] Jon Tester D MT N Law Civil actions and liability Congressional oversight Government liability Legal fees and court costs Law

00 2012-01-30 Introduced in Senate 2012-02-23T21:15:23Z Amends the federal judicial code to require the Attorney General to submit to Congress and make publicly available online an annual report regarding the amount of attorney's fees, expenses for expert witnesses, and other fees and expenses awarded during the preceding fiscal year to certain prevailing parties other than the United States in civil actions (other than tort cases) brought by or against the United States.

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A bill to reinstate the reporting provision relating to fees and expenses awarded to prevailing parties in civil actions involving the United States. Display Title A bill to reinstate the reporting provision relating to fees and expenses awarded to prevailing parties in civil actions involving the United States. Official Title as Introduced A bill to reinstate the reporting provision relating to fees and expenses awarded to prevailing parties in civil actions involving the United States. Introduced in Senate 2012-01-30T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s2042is/xml/BILLS-112s2042is.xml 2012-01-30 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.