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Committee advances bill letting local governments use websites when local newspaper closes
Summary
House File 2231 would allow local units of government to publish required public notices on their official websites temporarily when a qualified local newspaper has closed. The committee recommended the bill to pass and re-referred it to the General Register after testimony from cities, school districts and newspaper representatives.
The Finance and Government Operations Committee recommended House File 2231, a bill intended to give local governments temporary authority to post statutorily required public notices on their official websites when a "qualified" local newspaper has closed and no replacement exists.
Representative Harder introduced the measure, describing it as a continuation of negotiations from the prior legislative session and the product of talks with the Association of Minnesota Counties, the League of Minnesota Cities, and the Minnesota Newspaper Association. Tori Key of the League of Minnesota Cities said the bill would let cities publish required notices on their websites and on the Minnesota Newspaper Association’s public-notice website "while they research and…
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