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SB1062 • 2025

Relating to the type of newspaper required for publication of public notices.

Relating to the type of newspaper required for publication of public notices.

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Kolkhorst
Last action
2025-05-19
Official status
05/19/2025 E Effective immediately
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to the type of newspaper required for publication of public notices.

Relating to the type of newspaper required for publication of public notices.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the type of newspaper required for publication of public notices.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Effective immediately

  3. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  4. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  5. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  6. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    House passage reported

  7. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  8. 2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  9. 2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  10. 2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#1350

  11. 2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  12. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid out in lieu of companion. HB 3782

  13. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  14. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to 3rd reading

  15. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#1215

  16. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  17. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  18. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  19. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  20. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  21. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  22. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  23. 2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to State Affairs

  24. 2025-04-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the Senate

  25. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-author authorized

  26. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on local & uncontested calendar

  27. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid before the Senate

  28. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment

  29. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  30. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  31. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  32. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  33. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  34. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  35. 2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  36. 2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  37. 2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  38. 2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  39. 2025-03-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  40. 2025-03-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  41. 2025-03-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  42. 2025-03-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  43. 2025-03-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  44. 2025-03-17 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  45. 2025-02-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  46. 2025-02-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Local Government

  47. 2025-02-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

  48. 2025-02-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the type of newspaper required for publication of public notices.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) SB 1062 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

S.B. No. 1062

AN ACT

relating to the type of newspaper required for publication of

public notices.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 2051.0441, Government Code, is amended

by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to read as

follows:

(b)
Except as provided by Subsection (b-1), the
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newspaper in which a notice is published under this section must:

(1) devote not less than 20 percent of its total column

lineage to general interest items;

(2) be published at least once each week;

(3) be entered as periodical postal matter in the

county where published or have a mailed or delivered circulation of

at least 51 percent of the residences in the county where published;

and

(4) have been published regularly and continuously for

at least 12 months before the governmental entity or representative

publishes notice.

(b-1)

In lieu of publishing a notice in a newspaper under

Subsection (b), a governmental entity may publish a notice in a

digital newspaper if that digital newspaper:

(1) has an audited paid-subscriber base;

(2) has been in business for at least three years;

(3)

employs staff in the jurisdiction of the

governmental entity;

(4)

reports on local events and governmental

activities in the jurisdiction of the governmental entity;

(5)

provides news of general interest to people in the

jurisdiction of the governmental entity; and

(6) updates its news at least once each week.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives

a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as

provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this

Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this

Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1062 passed the Senate on

April 10, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1062 passed the House on

May 2, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 125, Nays 0, one present

not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

Approved:

______________________________

Date

______________________________

Governor