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Public Notice Resource Center Nonprofit organization that provides information about the value of public notices in local newspapers and educates the public on the value and use of its right to know Stateagency website bills dead in three states Legislation requiring state agencies to publish official notice on their websites was killed last week in committees in Indiana Georgia and West Virginia. After passing the House last month by a comfortable margin Indiana HB1312 was defeated in a Senate committee by a vote of 82. The bill allowed every public notice in the state to eventually be posted on a stateagency website. It was rejected a week after the Hoosier State Press Association HSPA organized a statehouse rally at which more than 100 Indiana publishers editors reporters and subscribers gathered outside the Senate chambers to oppose the bill according to Johnston Countys Daily Journal.