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Committee amends H.244 to exclude job postings from local-ad requirement amid data and federal-funds questions
Summary
Legislative committee agreed to remove employment and job-posting advertisements from H.244's 80% local-advertising requirement but debated whether the 80% threshold is achievable given missing spending data and federal funding constraints.
A House Government Operations & Military Affairs committee instructed legislative counsel to amend H.244 to exclude employment and job-posting advertisements from a provision that would require a percentage of state advertising spending be placed with local media, but members disagreed on the statute's percentage target and said they lack the data and testimony needed to finalize the measure.
The change was described on the record by John Gray, Office of the Legislative Council, who said the proposed edit “is a very simple amendment” to subsection c of H.244 that would add employment searches and job postings to the bill’s list of exceptions. Gray said the amendment would leave the remainder of the bill’s 80% requirement intact for other types of advertising.
Supporters and witnesses told the committee the goal is to direct more state advertising dollars to local news organizations to shore up struggling…
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