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PRINTER'S NO.    413
                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
                         SENATE BILL
                         No. 451
                                                Session of
                                                  2025
     INTRODUCED BY PHILLIPS-HILL, LAUGHLIN, BROWN AND PENNYCUICK,
        MARCH 17, 2025
     REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 17, 2025
                                     AN ACT
 Amending Title 45 (Legal Notices) of the Pennsylvania
    Consolidated Statutes, in legal advertising, providing for
    disclosure of taxpayer-funded advertising and public notices.
    The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 hereby enacts as follows:
    Section 1.     Title 45 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
 § 311.   Disclosure of taxpayer-funded advertising and public
                notices.
    (a)   Dollar amount.--An advertisement, legal advertisement,
 official advertisement or legal notice required to be published
 in a newspaper under the following must include the dollar
 amount paid by the advertiser in the lower right-hand corner:
          (1)   The act of June 24, 1931 (P.L.1206, No.331), known
    as The First Class Township Code.
          (2)   The act of May 1, 1933 (P.L.103, No.69), known as
    The Second Class Township Code.
          (3)   Article II of the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30,
    No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949.
          (4)   The act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723, No.230), known as
    the Second Class County Code.
          (5)   The act of July 15, 1957 (P.L.901, No.399), known as
    the Optional Third Class City Charter Law.
          (6)   8 Pa.C.S. (relating to boroughs and incorporated
    towns).
          (7)   11 Pa.C.S. (relating to cities).
          (8)   16 Pa.C.S. (relating to counties).
          (9)   65 Pa.C.S. Ch. 7 (relating to open meetings).
    (b)   Additional fee prohibited.--A publisher of an
 advertisement, legal advertisement, official advertisement or
 legal notice under subsection (a) may not charge an additional
 fee for inclusion of the dollar amount paid in the publication.
    Section 2.    This act shall apply to an advertisement, legal
 advertisement, official advertisement or legal notice published
 on or after the effective date of this section.
    Section 3.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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