HB 2167 Summary

• Increases fees for legal notice publication in newspapers effective November 1, 2025: non-tabular matter rises from $0.15 to $0.22 per word for first insertion and $0.14 to $0.20 per word for subsequent insertions.

• Increases tabular matter fees from $0.70 to $1.10 per line per newspaper column width for first insertion and $0.65 to $1.00 for subsequent insertions.

• Requires newspapers to publish notices on their websites at no additional cost and upload notices to a statewide website maintained by Oklahoma newspapers, with temporary outages considered harmless error.

• Establishes submission deadline rules allowing newspapers to require notice submission no more than five business days before publication and requiring confirmation of receipt and publication dates.

• Requires newspapers to publish notices at no charge in a future issue if they fail to publish in the originally specified issue, with only the first omitted notice required to run free.