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Sponsors seek to restore one-year statute of limitations for defamation with HB441
House Judiciary Committee · October 1, 2025
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Summary
Sponsors told the Judiciary Committee HB441 would codify a one-year statute of limitations for defamation and specify that each new publication restarts the one-year window, countering a judicial discovery rule they said departed from longstanding practice.
Sponsors presented House Bill 441 to restore what they described as the longstanding one-year statute of limitations for defamation claims and to clarify that each new publication triggers a new one-year period to sue. The sponsors said a court decision (Weidman v. Hildebrandt) introduced a…
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