Kentucky legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky SB141: AN ACT relating to legal advertisements.
Status: In committee, April 15, 2026
Amend KRS 424.110 to define "advertisement" and "published statement of ownership"; amend KRS 424.120 to determine where newspaper advertisements shall be placed when 2 or more newspapers meet the initial qualifications; determine when alternative publication procedures may be used when there is no newspaper in the county containing the government seeking to make the advertisement or no suitable newspaper in an adjoining similarly sized county; define "adjoining similarly sized county", and set publication parameters for advertisements, along with parallel advertising in the largest association of newspapers within the Commonwealth; set time requirements for publication; provide when digital newspapers may be used for advertising and when publication is deemed to have occurred; amend KRS 424.147 to expand remedial advertising to satisfy not only the provisions found in KRS Chapter 424, but the remainder of the Kentucky Revised Statutes relating to timing or manner of publication; amend KRS 424.160 to set the rates for advertising; require contractual terms offered to public agencies of the Commonwealth that are offered to commercial customers; require the rate charged by a newspaper shall be the lowest advertising rate provided for in KRS 424.215; provide volume discounts for display forms; amend KRS 132.027, 68.245, 132.023, and 160.470 to specify that publication shall be made in the qualified newspaper under KRS 424.120 rather than in the largest newspaper within the county; remove the requirement for display type and column inch minimum; expand the requirement that publication be made not less than 7 days nor more than 21 days.
What the bill says
An act relating to legal advertisements.
From the introduced text:
AN ACT relating to legal advertisements. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Section 1. KRS 424.110 is amended to read as follows: As used in KRS 424.110 to 424.370: (1) "Advertisement" means any matter required by law to be published; (2) "Publication area" means the city, county, district, or other local area for which an advertisement is required by law to be made. An advertisement shall be deemed to be for a particular city, county, district, or other local area if it concerns an official activity of the city, county, district, or other area or of any governing body, board, commission, officer, agency, or court thereof, or if the subject of the advertisement concerns particularly the people of the city, county, district, or other area; (3)[(2)] "Published statement of ownership" means the current United States Postal Service Form PS 3526, or successor form, filed by a print newspaper with the United States Postal Service on or before October 1 of each year[ "Advertisement" means any matter required by law to be published]; and (4)[(3)] "Zoned edition" means a newspaper edition published at least once a week, distributed in a specific geographic region of the newspaper's circulation area, and containing reporting and advertising of interest to subscribers in that geographic region. Section 2. KRS 424.120 …
Sponsors
- David Givens (R, SD-009) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
- : taken from the Orders of the Day
- : posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 19 2026
- : reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules
- : returned to Local Government (H)
- : 1st reading
- : taken from Local Government (H)
- : to Local Government (H)
- : to Committee on Committees (H)
- : received in House
Votes
- Senate: PASS SB 141 RSN# 3828 (February 17, 2026): 36 yea, 1 nay, passed
Subjects: Media, Education, Elementary And Secondary, Special Purpose Governmental Entities, Taxation, Courts, Fiscal, Local Mandate, Counties, Counties, Urban
Common questions
- What is SB141?
- SB141 is a bill in the Kentucky Legislature (2026 Regular Session): AN ACT relating to legal advertisements.
- What does SB141 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to legal advertisements.
- What is the status of SB141?
- In committee as of April 15, 2026. Latest action: recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H) (April 15, 2026).
- Who sponsored SB141?
- David Givens (R, SD-009).
- Where is the official record for SB141?
- On the Kentucky Legislature website: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26rs/sb141.html
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