Bill Text: MS HB626 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Counties and municipalities; provide an additional public notice procedure.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-15 - Referred To Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency [HB626 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2025-HB626-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2025 Regular Session
To: Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency
By: Representative Remak
House Bill 626
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT WHENEVER A PUBLIC NOTICE IS PUBLISHED IN A NEWSPAPER BY A COUNTY OR MUNICIPALITY AS REQUIRED BY LAW, A COUNTY OR MUNICIPALITY MAY CONCURRENTLY POST NOTICE OF THE PUBLICATION IN AT LEAST THREE PUBLIC PLACES WITHIN THE COUNTY OR MUNICIPALITY AND ON THE GOVERNING AUTHORITY'S WEBSITE FOR A PERIOD OF TIME THAT RUNS CONCURRENTLY WITH THE PERIOD OF REQUIRED PUBLICATION; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Whenever any provision of statutory law in Mississippi requires a county or municipality to publish notice in a newspaper published within such county or municipality, or in a newspaper of general circulation within such county or municipality, or otherwise publish notice of a statutory procedure or proceeding, the county or municipality may, concurrently with such publication requirement, post notice in at least three (3) public places within such county or municipality, and on the governing authority's website if the authority maintains a website, for a period of time that runs concurrently with the period of publication. This provision does not relieve any such county or municipality of the statutory duty to publish when required by law, in the event one or more required publications of a statutory procedure or proceeding is not published through no fault of the county or municipality, the underlying statutory process shall not be voided by virtue of the failure of the publication, and statutory public notice shall be deemed to have been provided, if the county or municipality has posted notice as provided under this section.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2025.
