Key Votes
HB 2732 - Increased Fees for Lawsuits - Key Vote
West Virginia Key Votes
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Legislation - Referred to Committee (Senate) - March 3, 2011
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (65-35) - March 2, 2011 (Key vote)
Title: Increased Fees for Lawsuits
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that expands the sources of revenue for the Supreme Court of Appeals Public Campaign Financing Fund.
Highlights:
- Transfers $2 million from the Unclaimed Property Trust Fund to the Supreme Court of Appeals Public Campaign Financing Fund on or before July 1, 2011 (Sec. 1).
- Requires the West Virginia State Bar to assess every attorney licensed to practice law a fee to be deposited in the fund beginning in fiscal year 2011-2012 as follows (Sec. 1):
- $50 for attorneys licensed to practice law for three years or less;
- $75 for attorneys licensed to practice law for more than three years; and
- $65 for attorneys licensed to practice law on inactive status.
- Requires circuit courts to assess a fee of $10 on every civil action, cause, suit, or proceeding that is filed or instituted to be deposited in the fund, with the following exceptions (Sec. 1):
- Class actions (which are assessed a $20 fee collected from the nonprevailing party);
- Domestic relations actions; and
- Actions filed in forma pauperis.
- Requires the assessment of a $10 fair administration of justice fee on each plaintiff in a divorce action filed in family court or in a civil action filed in magistrate court to be deposited in the fund, unless the action is filed by people without the means to fund the normal costs of a lawsuit (Sec. 1).
- Requires the assessment of a $10 fair administration of justice fee on each plaintiff in a civil action filed in magistrate court at the time the case is filed, unless the action is filed in forma pauperis (Sec. 1).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Jan. 21, 2011
Title: Increased Fees for Lawsuits
Sponsors
- Bonnie Louise Brown (WV - D) (Out Of Office)
- Robert John Doyle (WV - D) (Out Of Office)
- John Naif Ellem (WV - R)
- Barbara Evans Fleischauer (WV - D)
- Barbara Ann 'Bobbie' Hatfield (WV - D) (Out Of Office)
- Charlene J. Marshall (WV - D)
- Clifton 'Clif' Moore (WV - D)
- Daniel 'Dan' Poling (WV - D)
