SB 141 KY

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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.

• D. Givens Republican · primary

1. Jan 30, 2026 introduced in Senate · upper
2. Jan 30, 2026 to Committee on Committees (S) · upper
3. Feb 9, 2026 to State & Local Government (S) · upper
4. Feb 11, 2026 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar · upper
5. Feb 12, 2026 2nd reading, to Rules · upper
6. Feb 12, 2026 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 17 2026 · upper
7. Feb 17, 2026 3rd reading, passed 36-1 · upper
8. Feb 18, 2026 received in House · lower
9. Feb 18, 2026 to Committee on Committees (H) · lower
10. Mar 5, 2026 to Local Government (H) · lower
11. Mar 13, 2026 taken from Local Government (H) · lower
12. Mar 13, 2026 1st reading · upper
13. Mar 13, 2026 returned to Local Government (H) · lower
14. Mar 17, 2026 reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules · upper
15. Mar 18, 2026 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 19 2026 · upper
16. Apr 15, 2026 taken from the Orders of the Day · upper
17. Apr 15, 2026 recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H) · lower