Bill Summary

SB 1780 Defamation, False Light, and Unauthorized Publication of Name or Likenesses (2024 Session)
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Sponsors
by Brodeur  CS Sponsors: Judiciary
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Summary
Defamation, False Light, and Unauthorized Publication of Name or Likenesses; Requiring that certain articles or broadcasts be removed from the Internet within a specified period to limit damages for defamation; providing persons in certain positions relating to newspapers with immunity for defamation if such persons exercise due care to prevent publication or utterance of such a statement; providing venue for damages for a defamation or privacy tort based on material broadcast over radio or television; providing a rebuttable presumption that a publisher of a false statement acted with actual malice in certain circumstances, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2024
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committees of reference
   S Judiciary
» S Fiscal Policy
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Actions
01/05/24
SENATE
Filed
01/11/24
SENATE
Referred to Judiciary; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
01/31/24
SENATE
On Committee agenda - Judiciary, 02/05/24, 2:30 pm, 110 S
02/05/24
SENATE
Favorable with CS by Judiciary; 7 Yeas, 2 Nays
02/06/24
SENATE
Committee Substitute Text (C1) Filed
02/06/24
SENATE
Reference to Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice removed; Remaining reference: Fiscal Policy
02/06/24
SENATE
Now in Fiscal Policy
03/08/24
SENATE
Died in Fiscal Policy
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bill text & filed amendments
1780
Filed on 01/05/24
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Amendment 882282 DE
Brodeur
Filed on 02/02/24
Replaced by CS
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1780C1
Filed on 02/06/24
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No amendments to this bill text filed.
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Statute Citations
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