AB 2095 (Maienschein D) Publication: newspapers of general circulation.

Current Text: Amended: 3/13/2024

Last Amend: 3/13/2024

Status: 4/10/2024-In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

Location: 4/10/2024-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE

Summary: Current law requires various types of notices to be provided in a “newspaper of general circulation,” as that term is defined, in accordance with certain prescribed publication periods and legal requirements. Current law requires a newspaper of general circulation to meet certain criteria, including publication, a bonafide subscription list of paying subscribers, and printing and publishing at regular intervals in the state, county, or city where publication is to be given. This bill would require a person or other specified entity that is legally required to publish a notice in a newspaper of general circulation or other newspaper to publish that notice in a manner that ensures it appears in the newspaper’s print publication, on the newspaper’s internet website or electronic newspaper available on the internet, and on a statewide internet website maintained as a repository for notices by a majority of California newspapers of general circulation, as specified. The bill would permit a newspaper that does not maintain its own internet website to satisfy these notice requirements by publishing the notice on a statewide internet website and referencing the statewide internet website in its print publication notice.