Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 834
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/13/2014           .                                
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       (Simmons) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 30 - 79
    4  and insert:
    5  charge. If there is a specified size and placement required for
    6  a printed legal notice, the size and placement of the notice on
    7  the newspaper’s website must should optimize its online
    8  visibility in keeping with the print requirements. The
    9  newspaper’s web pages that contain legal notices must shall
   10  present the legal notices as the dominant and leading subject
   11  matter of those pages. The newspaper’s website must shall
   12  contain a search function to facilitate searching the legal
   13  notices. A fee may not be charged, and registration may not be
   14  required, for viewing or searching legal notices on a
   15  newspaper’s website if the legal notice is published in a
   16  newspaper This subsection shall take effect July 1, 2013.
   17         (3)(a) If a legal notice is published in a newspaper, the
   18  newspaper publishing the notice shall place the notice on the
   19  statewide website established and maintained as an initiative of
   20  the Florida Press Association as a repository for such notices
   21  located at the following address: www.floridapublicnotices.com.
   22         (b) A legal notice placed on the statewide website created
   23  under this subsection must be:
   24         1. Accessible and searchable by party name and case number.
   25         2. Posted for a period of at least 90 consecutive days
   26  after the first day of posting.
   27         (c) The statewide website created under this subsection
   28  shall maintain a searchable archive of all legal notices posted
   29  on the publicly accessible website on or after October 1, 2014,
   30  for 18 months after the first day of posting. Such searchable
   31  archive shall be provided and accessible to the general public
   32  without charge.
   33         (4) Newspapers that publish legal notices shall, upon
   34  request, provide e-mail notification of new legal notices when
   35  they are printed in the newspaper and added to the newspaper’s
   36  website. Such e-mail notification shall be provided without
   37  charge, and notification for such an e-mail registry shall be
   38  available on the front page of the legal notices section of the
   39  newspaper’s website. This subsection shall take effect July 1,
   40  2013.
   41         (5) An error in the notice placed on the newspaper or
   42  statewide
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   44  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   45  And the title is amended as follows:
   46         Delete lines 3 - 12
   47  and insert:
   48         F.S.; requiring legal notices to be posted on a
   49         newspaper’s website on web pages with specified
   50         titles; prohibiting charging a fee or requiring
   51         registration for viewing online legal notices;
   52         establishing the period for which legal notices are
   53         required to be published on the statewide website;
   54         requiring that legal notices be archived on the
   55         statewide website for a specified period; deleting a
   56         provision relating to harmless error; amending s.
   57         50.061, F.S.; clarifying