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HB 1618 Virginia Freedom of Information Act; resource management plans, closed meetings.
Introduced by: Edward T. Scott | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Resource management plans; consideration of certain records in closed meetings. Creates an open meeting exemption for the discussion or consideration of certain records, currently excluded from FOIA, that relate to resource management plans. The bill provides that this exemption shall not apply, however, to the discussion or consideration of records that contain information that has been certified for release by the person who is the subject of the information or transformed into a statistical or aggregate form that does not allow identification of the person who supplied, or is the subject of, the information. This bill is identical to SB 1126.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15100469D pdf
- 01/27/15 House: Committee substitute printed 15104110D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/24/15 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1618ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/16/15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0169) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/08/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15100469D
- 01/08/15 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/15/15 House: Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2
- 01/22/15 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/15 House: Reported from General Laws with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/15 House: Committee substitute printed 15104110D-H1
- 01/29/15 House: Read first time
- 01/30/15 House: Read second time
- 01/30/15 House: Committee substitute agreed to 15104110D-H1
- 01/30/15 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1618H1
- 02/02/15 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/15 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/15 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/03/15 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/16/15 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (12-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/15 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/15 Senate: Read third time
- 02/19/15 Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/15 House: Enrolled
- 02/24/15 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1618ER)
- 02/25/15 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/26/15 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/26/15 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/26/15
- 02/26/15 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, Sunday, March 29, 2015
- 03/16/15 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 169 (effective 7/1/15)
- 03/16/15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0169)