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2024 SESSION
HB 264 Legal notices and publications; online-only news publications, requirements.
Introduced by: Patrick A. Hope | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Legal notices and publications; online-only news publications; requirements. Provides that, where any ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisement is required by law to be published in a newspaper, such ordinance, resolution, notice, or advertisement instead may be published in an online-only news publication subject to certain requirements specified in the bill. The bill sets out a process by which an online-only news publication shall petition the circuit court of the appropriate jurisdiction to publish such ordinances, resolutions, notices, or advertisements and authorizes the court to grant such online-only news publication the authority to publish such ordinances, resolutions, notices, or advertisements for a period of one year. The bill also describes the process by which an online-only news publication may continue renewing such authority to publish in each successive year. This bill is identical to SB 157.
FULL TEXT
- 01/05/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104158D pdf
- 02/27/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB264ER) pdf
- 04/02/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0277) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/05/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104158D
- 01/05/24 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/25/24 House: Assigned Courts sub: Civil
- 01/29/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/24 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation
- 02/02/24 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (20-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/24 House: Read first time
- 02/07/24 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/08/24 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/24 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/09/24 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/19/24 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (11-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/24 Senate: Read third time
- 02/21/24 Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N)
- 02/27/24 House: Enrolled
- 02/27/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB264ER)
- 02/27/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/01/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/24 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
- 03/11/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 04/02/24 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 277 (effective 7/1/24)
- 04/02/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0277)