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2024 SESSION
SB 157 Legal notices and publications; online-only news publications, requirements.
Introduced by: Jennifer B. Boysko | 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 HB 264.
FULL TEXT
- 01/05/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104298D pdf
- 02/26/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB157ER) pdf
- 04/02/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0341) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/05/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104298D
- 01/05/24 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/10/24 Senate: Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
- 01/17/24 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/19/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- 01/22/24 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/23/24 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 3-N)
- 02/13/24 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/13/24 House: Read first time
- 02/13/24 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/16/24 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/24 House: Read second time
- 02/21/24 House: Read third time
- 02/21/24 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/24 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/24 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/26/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB157ER)
- 02/26/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/28/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/24 Senate: 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 341 (effective 7/1/24)
- 04/02/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0341)