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2000 SESSION

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SB 767 Web Site Protection Act; created.

Introduced by: Patricia S. Ticer | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Trade and commerce; Virginia Website Protection Act. Creates the Virginia Website Protection Act ("Act"). The Act gives legal recognition to the existing and future conventions and protocols that comprise the World Wide Web by establishing that a website is personal property and creates new civil causes of actions to redress wrongful conduct injurious to website owners. To take advantage of the protections of the Act, a website owner must register with the State Corporation Commission and domesticate his website in Virginia. The SCC is to establish and maintain the Virginia Website Registry; however, the SCC is not to enforce, interpret, or validate any provision of the agreement between the website owner and the website user nor hear any case or controversy arising out of such agreement.

FULL TEXT

• 01/26/00  Senate: Presented & ordered printed 002214544  pdf
• 02/03/00  Senate: Committee substitute printed 006750544-S1  pdf
• 02/04/00  Senate: Printed as engrossed 006750544-ES1  pdf
• 02/08/00  Senate: Floor substitute printed 006751544-S2 (Ticer)  pdf

AMENDMENTS

• Senate amendments rejected

HISTORY

• 01/26/00  Senate: Consent to introduce (38-Y 0-N)
• 01/26/00  Senate: VOTE: CONSENT TO INTRODUCE (38-Y 0-N)
• 01/26/00  Senate: Presented & ordered printed 002214544
• 01/26/00  Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws
• 02/02/00  Senate: Reported from General Laws with sub (12-Y 0-N 2-A)
• 02/03/00  Senate: Committee substitute printed 006750544-S1
• 02/03/00  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 02/03/00  Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (37-Y 0-N)
• 02/04/00  Senate: Read second time
• 02/04/00  Senate: Reading of substitute waived
• 02/04/00  Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 006750544-S1
• 02/04/00  Senate: Reading of amendments waived
• 02/04/00  Senate: Amendments by Sen. Ticer agreed to
• 02/04/00  Senate: Engrossed by Senate - comm. sub. w/amds 006750544-ES1
• 02/04/00  Senate: Printed as engrossed 006750544-ES1
• 02/07/00  Senate: Read third time
• 02/07/00  Senate: Passed by for the day
• 02/08/00  Senate: Read third time
• 02/08/00  Senate: Engrossment reconsidered by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/08/00  Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/08/00  Senate: Amendments by Sen. Ticer reconsidered (38-Y 0-N)
• 02/08/00  Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER (38-Y 0-N)
• 02/08/00  Senate: Amendments by Sen. Ticer rejected
• 02/08/00  Senate: Committee substitute reconsidered 006750544-S1 (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/08/00  Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER (39-Y 0-N)
• 02/08/00  Senate: Committee substitute rejected 006750544-S1
• 02/08/00  Senate: Floor substitute printed 006751544-S2 (Ticer)
• 02/08/00  Senate: Reading of substitute waived
• 02/08/00  Senate: Substitute by Sen. Ticer agreed to 006751544-S2
• 02/08/00  Senate: Rereferred to Courts of Justice
• 02/13/00  Senate: Continued to 2001 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)