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2005 SESSION
Chairman: Walter A. Stosch
Clerk: Martha P. Turner
Staff: Amigo Wade
Date of Meeting: January 12, 2005
Time and Place: 2:00 PM, Senate Room B, GAB
Update
Patron: Houck
Freedom of Information Act; electronic communication meetings. Reduces the notice required for electronic communication meetings from 30 days to seven working days. The bill also (i) eliminates the 25 percent limitation on the number of electronic meetings held annually, (ii) eliminates the requirement that an audio or audio/visual recording be made of the electronic communication meeting, but retains the requirement that minutes be taken pursuant to § 2.2-3707, (iii) allows for the conduct of closed meetings during electronic meetings, and (iv) changes the annual reporting requirement from the Virginia Information Technology Agency to the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council and the Joint Commission on Technology and Science and expands the type of information required to be reported. The bill defines "electronic communication means." The bill is a recommendation of the Freedom of Information Advisory Council.
Patron: Wampler
Electronic meetings of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia. Extends from 2005 to 2007 the sunset for the exception to the Freedom of Information Act requirements for holding telephonic or video broadcast meetings that has been accorded to the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia.
Patron: Locke
Mutual aid arrangements. Allows a local director of emergency management to enter into mutual aid arrangements for reciprocal assistance in case of disaster with other states or localities within other states. Currently, directors are limited to making these arrangements with other public or private agencies within the Commonwealth or with states adjacent to the Commonwealth.
Patron: Williams
Mutual aid arrangements. Allows a local director of emergency management to enter into mutual aid arrangements for reciprocal assistance in case of disaster with other states or localities within other states. Currently, directors are limited to making these arrangements with other public or private agencies within the Commonwealth or with states adjacent to the Commonwealth.