Virginia House Bill 728 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-15 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Newspapers; legal notices and publications; requirements. Alters the requirements for newspapers that may be used for legal notices and publications by (i) changing the publication and circulation requirement from 24 consecutive weeks to at least 50 of the preceding 52 weeks; (ii) requiring that such a newspaper have both a general circulation in, as newly defined in the bill, and news coverage of the area in which such notice is required to be published; and (iii) requiring that such newspaper publish the United States Postal Service Statement of Ownership in such newspaper at least once per calendar year and maintain a copy of such form for inspection. The bill makes additional changes to the options available for allowing a newspaper to qualify as a newspaper that may be used for publishing such legal notices and publications.

Newspapers; alters requirements that may be used for legal notices and publications.

Sen. Chris Head [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-15	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2018-01-16	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #3
2018-01-09	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2018-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104372D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
8	01	324	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB728
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB728+hil