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CS/SB 380: Legal Notices

GENERAL BILL by Judiciary ; Trumbull

Legal Notices; Revising the definition of the term “governmental agency”; requiring governmental agencies and special governmental agencies to publish certain legal notices continuously for a specified timeframe when the notices are for a specified purpose and provided under a certain circumstance; authorizing certain special governmental agencies to use a publicly accessible website to publish certain advertisements and legal notices under specified conditions; requiring that a public bid advertisement made by a special governmental agency on a publicly accessible website include a method to accept electronic bids, etc.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  11/4/2025	Senate	• Filed
  11/17/2025	Senate	• Referred to Judiciary; Community Affairs; Rules
  11/24/2025	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 12/02/25, 1:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
  12/2/2025	Senate	• CS by Judiciary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
  12/3/2025	Senate	• Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
  12/5/2025	Senate	• Now in Community Affairs

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• CS/SB 380, Committee Substitute 1 (Current Bill Version) Posted 12/3/2025 at 11:16 AM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Citations - Statutes (13)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  11.02	Notice of special or local legislation or certain relief acts.	Page 5 (pdf)
  45.031	Judicial sales procedure.	Page 6 (pdf)
  50.011	Publication of legal notices.	Page 7 (pdf)
  50.0311	Publication of advertisements and public notices on a publicly accessible website and governmental access channels.	Page 2 (pdf)
  90.902	Self-authentication.	Page 8 (pdf)
  120.81	Exceptions and special requirements; general areas.	Page 8 (pdf)
  121.055	Senior Management Service Class.	Page 9 (pdf)
  162.12	Notices.	Page 14 (pdf)
  190.005	Establishment of district.	Page 14 (pdf)
  200.065	Method of fixing millage.	Page 16 (pdf)
  849.38	Proceedings for forfeiture; notice of seizure and order to show cause.	Page 17 (pdf)
  1001.372	District school board meetings.	Page 18 (pdf)
  1011.03	Public hearings; budget to be submitted to Department of Education.	Page 19 (pdf)

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• SB 380, Original Filed Version Posted 11/4/2025 at 2:22 PM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Judiciary (Pre-Meeting) 12/1/2025 (pdf) Judiciary (Post-Meeting) 12/3/2025 (pdf)

  Committee Amendments (1)

  Amendment	Sponsor	Filed	Last Committee Action	Format
  968116 - Amendment Delete lines 32 - 56 and insert:	Judiciary (Trumbull)	12/1/2025 12:37 PM	Replaced by Committee Substitute 12/3/2025	Web Page PDF

  Committee Votes (1)

  Date	Committee	Result
  12/2/2025 1:00 PM	Judiciary	10 Yeas - 0 Nays

  Citations - Statutes (13)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  11.02	Notice of special or local legislation or certain relief acts.	Page 3 (pdf)
  45.031	Judicial sales procedure.	Page 3 (pdf)
  50.011	Publication of legal notices.	Page 4 (pdf)
  50.0311	Publication of advertisements and public notices on a publicly accessible website and governmental access channels.	Page 2 (pdf)
  90.902	Self-authentication.	Page 5 (pdf)
  120.81	Exceptions and special requirements; general areas.	Page 5 (pdf)
  121.055	Senior Management Service Class.	Page 6 (pdf)
  162.12	Notices.	Page 11 (pdf)
  190.005	Establishment of district.	Page 11 (pdf)
  200.065	Method of fixing millage.	Page 13 (pdf)
  849.38	Proceedings for forfeiture; notice of seizure and order to show cause.	Page 14 (pdf)
  1001.372	District school board meetings.	Page 15 (pdf)
  1011.03	Public hearings; budget to be submitted to Department of Education.	Page 16 (pdf)

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