H1632 • 2025

An Act relative to legal advertisements in online-only newspapers

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Sponsor: Davis, Leigh
Last action: 2026-03-26
Official status: Accompanied a study order, see H5281 (under House Rule 27)
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act relative to legal advertisements in online-only newspapers

An Act relative to legal advertisements in online-only newspapers By Representatives Davis of Great Barrington and Badger of Plymouth, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

An Act relative to legal advertisements in online-only newspapers By Representatives Davis of Great Barrington and Badger of Plymouth, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
1632) of Leigh Davis relative to legal advertisements in online-only newspapers.
The Judiciary.

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Bill History

2026-03-26 House
Accompanied a study order, see H5281 (under House Rule 27)
2025-10-20 Joint
Hearing scheduled for 07/29/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:10 PM in A-2
2025-07-29 Joint
Hearing rescheduled to 07/29/2025 from 01:00 PM-06:00 PM in A-2 and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time
2025-07-29 Joint
Hearing rescheduled to 07/29/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:10 PM in A-2 and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time
2025-07-16 Joint
Hearing scheduled for 07/29/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
2025-02-27 House
Referred to the committee on The Judiciary
2025-02-27 Senate
Senate concurred
House
Reported by committee to Clerk’s Office for processing, will accompany a study order

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to legal advertisements in online-only newspapers
By Representatives Davis of Great Barrington and Badger of Plymouth, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1632) of Leigh Davis relative to legal advertisements in online-only newspapers. The Judiciary.

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Bill H.1632

SECTION 1. Subsection (b) of section 13 of chapter 4 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence:- Provided further, that for an online-only newspaper that does not maintain a print publication, publication on its own website and on a statewide website shall satisfy the publication requirement.

SECTION 2. Subsection (d) of said section 13 of said chapter 4, as so appearing, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence:- For an online-only newspaper, an error in a legal notice published on the online-only newspaper's website or the statewide website that is the result of (1) an error of the website operator; or (2) a temporary website outage or service interruption that prevents the publication or display of a legal notice on the website, shall not constitute a defect in publication of the legal notice; provided, however, that the legal notice appears correctly on either the online-only newspaper's website or the statewide website, and satisfies all other legal notice requirements.

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