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2024 SESSION

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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)