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2010 SESSION

10100102D
HOUSE BILL NO. 478
Offered January 13, 2010
Prefiled January 12, 2010
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 15.2-1412.1, relating to local database of citizen requests.
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Patron-- Carrico
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Referred to Committee on Science and Technology
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 15.2-1412.1 as follows:

§ 15.2-1412.1. Local database of citizen-reported issues and requests.

Every locality shall establish a database of citizen-reported issues and requests for information and the governmental responses to such citizen inquiries. Each issue and request shall be assigned a unique serial number. Such database shall be maintained in a format that allows public access via the Internet and the database shall be organized in a manner that allows information to be searched and sorted. The locality shall establish a procedure whereby the citizen making the inquiry may choose not to have his name appear in the database.