Gadsden Times: Ala. Senate passes bill to allow online notices

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Legal notices would be available both online and in the local newspaper under a measure approved Thursday by the Alabama Senate.

Municipalities and government bodies worried about the cost of publishing legal notices in newspapers had sought to be allowed to post them all on the Internet under a bill that never made it out of the Senate last year.

The Alabama Press Association had argued that millions of Alabamians had no access to the internet and would miss out on the notices.

Bill sponsor Sen. Cam Ward, a Republican from Alabaster, says his proposal is a compromise. It would require newspapers to charge cities their lowest commercial advertising rate and post all of the notices online for free.

The bill now goes to the Alabama House.

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