26RS SB 141

Senate Bill 141

Actions

Last Action	01/30/26: to Committee on Committees (S)
Title	AN ACT relating to legal advertisements.
Bill Documents	Introduced
Fiscal Impact Statement	Local Mandate
Bill Request Number	1938
Sponsor	D. Givens
Summary of Original Version	Amend KRS 424.110 to define "advertisement" and "published statement of ownership"; amend KRS 424.120 to determine where newspaper advertisements shall be placed when 2 or more newspapers meet the initial qualifications; determine when alternative publication procedures may be used when there is no newspaper in the county containing the government seeking to make the advertisement or no suitable newspaper in an adjoining similarly sized county; define "adjoining similarly sized county", and set publication parameters for advertisements, along with parallel advertising in the largest association of newspapers within the Commonwealth; set time requirements for publication; provide when digital newspapers may be used for advertising and when publication is deemed to have occurred; amend KRS 424.147 to expand remedial advertising to satisfy not only the provisions found in KRS Chapter 424, but the remainder of the Kentucky Revised Statutes relating to timing or manner of publication; amend KRS 424.160 to set the rates for advertising; require contractual terms offered to public agencies of the Commonwealth that are offered to commercial customers; require the rate charged by a newspaper shall be the lowest advertising rate provided for in KRS 424.215; provide volume discounts for display forms; amend KRS 132.027, 68.245, 132.023, and 160.470 to specify that publication shall be made in the qualified newspaper under KRS 424.120 rather than in the largest newspaper within the county; remove the requirement for display type and column inch minimum; expand the requirement that publication be made not less than 7 days nor more than 21 days.
Index Headings of Original Version	Local Mandate - Newspapers, legal advertisements, publication requirements for taxes Advertising - Newspaper, qualifications Cities - Publication requirements for taxes Counties - Publication requirements for taxes Counties, Urban - Publication requirements for taxes Courts, Fiscal - Publication requirements for taxes Education, Elementary And Secondary - Publication requirements for taxes Local Government - Publication requirements for taxes Media - Newspapers, legal advertisements Publications - Newspapers, legal advertisements Special Purpose Governmental Entities - Publication requirements for taxes Taxation - Newspapers, legal advertisements Notices - Newspapers, legal advertisements