FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act  to provide a civil cause of action for barratry and to institute a procedure for the assertion of a claim of barratry.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
     Section  1.  Barratry is the assertion of a frivolous or malicious claim or defense by a party in a civil action under Title 15. Barratry constitutes a cause of action which may be asserted by filing a pleading in the civil action in which the claim of barratry is made. A claim of barratry shall be determined in the same manner as any other substantive cause of action asserted in that civil action.

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BILL HISTORY
2/4/97 First read in House and referred to State Affairs.   H.J.   298
2/14/97 Scheduled for Committee hearing on this date.
2/14/97 State Affairs Do Pass, Passed, AYES 11, NAYS 2.   H.J.   482
2/15/97 Deferred to another day.   H.J.   522
2/18/97 Deferred to another day.   H.J.   553
2/19/97 Motion to Amend.   H.J.   578
2/19/97 House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, AYES 50, NAYS 17.   H.J.   578