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SB194 • 2025
obtaining attorney fees and costs under the state’s public records law when an authority voluntarily or unilaterally releases a contested record after an action has been filed in court
The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.
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Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Representative Billings added as a cosponsor
Representative Brown added as a cosponsor
Representative Doyle added as a cosponsor
Read first time and referred to committee on Rules
Senators Ratcliff and Carpenter added as coauthors
Read a second time
Ordered to a third reading
Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
Read a third time and passed
Ordered immediately messaged
Received from Senate
Placed on calendar 5-15-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
Senator Drake added as a coauthor
Executive action taken
Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety , Ayes 8, Noes 0
Available for scheduling
Public hearing held
Introduced by Senators Wanggaard , Feyen , Kapenga , Quinn , Roys , Spreitzer , Stafsholt , Nass and Tomczyk ; cosponsored by Representatives Novak , Swearingen , Anderson , Armstrong , Behnke , Franklin , Goeben , Gundrum , Gustafson , Kitchens , Knodl , Murphy , Mursau , Nedweski , O'Connor , Rodriguez , Steffen , Tittl , Tranel , Tusler , Wichgers , Wittke and Allen
Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety
obtaining attorney fees and costs under the state’s public records law when an authority voluntarily or unilaterally releases a contested record after an action has been filed in court Status: A - Rules