[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3593 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3593

To require the Federal Government to pay the costs incurred by a State 
or local government in defending a State or local immigration law that 
   survives a constitutional challenge by the Federal Government in 
                             Federal court.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 15, 2010

  Mr. Johanns introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Federal Government to pay the costs incurred by a State 
or local government in defending a State or local immigration law that 
   survives a constitutional challenge by the Federal Government in 
                             Federal court.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PAYMENT OF ATTORNEYS' FEES AND COURT COSTS RELATED TO 
              FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CHALLENGE OF STATE IMMIGRATION LAW.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all attorneys' fees and 
associated court costs incurred by a State or unit of local government 
in the course of defending a constitutional challenge to a State law or 
a municipal ordinance regarding immigration that is brought by the 
Federal Government in any Federal court shall be paid by the Federal 
Government if the court upholds, in whole or in part, the challenged 
State law or municipal ordinance.
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