Defamation, False Light, and Unauthorized Publication of Name or Likenesses
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.
Bill status
died
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 11, 2024
Last action Mar 8, 2024
Floor votes
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
11
Key actions
3
Committee
4
Feb 6, 2024
Upper · Passed
Original reference(s) removed: Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
upper
Feb 6, 2024
Upper · Passed
Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
upper
Jan 31, 2024
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 02/05/24, 2:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
upper
Jan 11, 2024
Introduced
Introduced
upper
Jan 11, 2024
Committee
Referred to Judiciary; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Jason Brodeur
RRepublican
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