ON APRIL 13, 2023, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #2 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 491, AS AMENDED.
AMENDMENT #2 rewrites this bill to retain the present law provisions described above and to add the following:
(1) An action brought pursuant to those present law provisions must be filed within one year after the cause of action accrued;
(2) The county has 60 days in which to answer or otherwise respond to any action brought pursuant to such action; and
(3) If, at the end of the 60-day period, the county has failed to answer or otherwise respond to the complaint, then the county must not be in default but rather is deemed to have denied the material, well pleaded factual allegations of the complaint.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 8-8-302
Amended with SA0443 -- 04/13/2023: 8-8-302