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Committee adopts amendment to legal‑notice bill after witnesses debate online posting vs. newspapers
Summary
An amendment to HB 1944 was adopted to preserve situations where federal law requires legal notices to appear in newspapers; testimony from the Virginia Association of Counties supported website posting flexibility while the Virginia Press Association opposed removing newspaper publication requirements.
The committee considered an amendment to House Bill 1944 that would allow localities to post legal notices on local government websites in lieu of newspaper publication in some cases; the committee adopted the amendment that preserves the requirement to use newspapers when federal law requires publication.
Committee counsel described the amendment on the floor, instructing that on line 15 the bill be changed to add: ", except when…
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