Legislation that would have enhanced transparency in government through increasing access to information by capitalizing on Wyoming newspapers’ online readership died on third reading in the House.
If HB164, “Legal notice publication on websites”, would have made it through the 2023 legislative session and been signed into law, it would have effectively required all newspapers, when a legal notice is required to publish in print, that it also be placed free and open to the public and free to the placing entity on the newspaper’s website and a statewide website maintained by legal newspapers. The bill was sponsored by Representatives D. Zwonitzer, Sherwood, Singh and Stith, and Senators Barlow, Landen, Nethercott and Pappas...
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