[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1525 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1525

    To prohibit Federal officials and employees from entering into 
settlements that provide for payment of attorney's fees by the Federal 
             Government in certain environmental law cases.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 13, 2017

Mr. Smith of Missouri (for himself, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Brat, Mr. Mullin, 
Mr. Luetkemeyer, and Mr. Bost) introduced the following bill; which was 
  referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the 
Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Natural Resources, and 
Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit Federal officials and employees from entering into 
settlements that provide for payment of attorney's fees by the Federal 
             Government in certain environmental law cases.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Stop Taxpayer Funded Settlements 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON SETTLEMENTS PROVIDING FOR PAYMENT OF ATTORNEY'S 
              FEES BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN CERTAIN ENVIRONMENTAL 
              LAW CASES.

    (a) Prohibition.--No Federal official or Federal employee may enter 
into a settlement in any environmental law case in which the Federal 
Government is a party if the settlement provides for payment of 
attorney's fees by the Federal Government.
    (b) Definition.--In this Act, the term the ``environmental law 
case'' means a case arising under--
            (1) the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.);
            (2) the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 
        et seq.); or
            (3) the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 
        seq.).
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