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H5228 • 2025

An Act granting Uxbridge the ability to post public meeting notices

An Act granting Uxbridge the ability to post public meeting notices

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Sponsor
Municipalities and Regional Government (J)
Last action
2026-04-09
Official status
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act granting Uxbridge the ability to post public meeting notices

An Act granting Uxbridge the ability to post public meeting notices Status: Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

What This Bill Does

  • An Act granting Uxbridge the ability to post public meeting notices Status: Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

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Bill History

  1. 2026-04-09 House

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting

  2. 2026-04-09 House

    Rules suspended

  3. 2026-04-09 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  4. 2026-03-12 House

    Reported from the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government

  5. 2026-03-12 House

    New draft of H4845

  6. 2026-03-12 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

Official Summary Text

An Act granting Uxbridge the ability to post public meeting notices
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

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Bill H.5228

SECTION 1.

Notwithstanding subsection (b) of section 13 of chapter 4 of the General Laws, wherever the town of Uxbridge or the Uxbridge Public Schools, or their subdivisions, committees, boards, commissions, departments or offices, are required by a general or special law, charter, by-law or judicial order to publish a legal notice in a newspaper or newspaper of general circulation, such requirement may be met through a town-wide website that may be maintained as a repository for such notices and 1 or more of the following means:

(i)

a print newspaper of local or general circulation;

(ii)

newspaper's website;

(iii)

websites reporting local news and opinion which satisfy all criteria for digital publication as set forth in said subsection (b) of said section 13 of said chapter 4; or

(iv)

a statewide website that may be maintained as a repository for such notices.

SECTION 2. Nothing set forth in this act shall be construed to alter or amend the time or timing of publication of legal notices set forth in the General Laws.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

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