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2001 SESSION
HB 1491 Web Site Protection Act.
Introduced by: Jeannemarie Devolites | 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.
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HISTORY
- 01/24/00 House: Presented & ordered printed 007270720
- 01/24/00 House: Referred to Committee on Science and Technology
- 02/11/00 House: Continued to 2001 in S.T. with sub (22-Y 0-N)
- 12/20/00 House: Left in Science and Technology