SB 141: AN ACT relating to legal advertisements.

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

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.

Sponsors

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

1. April 15, 2026recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
2. April 15, 2026taken from the Orders of the Day
3. March 18, 2026posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 19 2026
4. March 17, 2026reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules
5. March 13, 2026returned to Local Government (H)
6. March 13, 20261st reading
7. March 13, 2026taken from Local Government (H)
8. March 5, 2026to Local Government (H)
9. February 18, 2026to Committee on Committees (H)
10. February 18, 2026received in House
11. February 17, 20263rd reading, passed 36-1
12. February 12, 2026posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 17 2026

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