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Committee unanimously reports commission bills providing 'recipe' for ordinance-advertising summaries
Summary
Two commission bills (HB2177 and HB2179) were introduced and unanimously reported to the House. The bills set required elements for brief summaries of proposed ordinances and create a presumption of sufficiency when local governments follow the prescribed 'recipe' and make the full text available locally (and online if available).
The House Local Government Committee unanimously reported two commission bills aimed at reducing court challenges to published summaries of proposed ordinances.
A commission representative (Mr. Gacy) told the committee the bills respond to a Lancaster County court decision that struck down a notice for an amended…
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