Provide for calculation of attorney fees against government entity

HB 701 aimed to establish a new method for calculating attorney fees when a government entity in Montana is ordered to pay them in a legal case. The bill proposed that these attorney fees could not exceed the hourly salary rate of the state's Attorney General, multiplied by the hours the attorney worked on the specific legal action. This would directly affect the amount of attorney fees paid by the state, its political subdivisions, or agencies when they are assessed such fees.