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2019 SESSION
SB 1554 Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); violations and civil penalties.
Introduced by: Scott A. Surovell | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); civil penalties. Provides that in addition to any penalties imposed under FOIA, (i) if a court finds that any officer, employee, or member of a public body failed to provide public records to a requester in accordance with the provisions of FOIA because such officer, employee, or member of a public body altered or destroyed the requested public records with the intention of avoiding the provisions of FOIA prior to the expiration of the applicable record retention period set pursuant to the Virginia Public Records Act, the court may impose upon such officer, employee, or member in his individual capacity a civil penalty of up to $100 per record altered or destroyed and (ii) if a court finds that a member of a public body voted to certify a closed meeting and at the time of such certification an attorney representing the body was present and such certification was not in accordance with the requirements of FOIA, the court may impose on the public body a civil penalty of up to $1,000.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/19 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103495D pdf | impact statement
- 01/31/19 Senate: Printed as engrossed 19103495D-E pdf | impact statement
- 03/07/19 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1554ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/03/19 Senate: Reenrolled bill text (SB1554ER2) pdf
- 04/03/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0843) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House amendments adopted
- House amendments engrossed
- Senate amendments
- Conference amendments
- Governor's recommendation
HISTORY
- 01/08/19 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103495D
- 01/08/19 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 01/21/19 Senate: Assigned GL&T sub: #1
- 01/28/19 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments (11-Y 2-N)
- 01/30/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/19 Senate: Read second time
- 01/31/19 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 01/31/19 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 01/31/19 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1554E
- 01/31/19 Senate: Printed as engrossed 19103495D-E
- 02/01/19 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/04/19 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (34-Y 6-N)
- 02/06/19 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/06/19 House: Read first time
- 02/06/19 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/07/19 House: Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4
- 02/12/19 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (7-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/19 House: Reported from General Laws with amendment (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/19 House: Read second time
- 02/19/19 House: Read third time
- 02/19/19 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/19/19 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/19/19 House: Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/19 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/19 House: Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
- 02/19/19 House: Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/19 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE #2 (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/19 Senate: House amendment rejected by Senate (2-Y 38-N)
- 02/21/19 House: House insisted on amendment
- 02/21/19 House: House requested conference committee
- 02/21/19 Senate: Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/19 Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 02/21/19 Senate: Senators: Surovell, DeSteph, Vogel
- 02/21/19 House: Conferees appointed by House
- 02/21/19 House: Delegates: Hodges, Leftwich, Murphy
- 02/22/19 Conference: Amended by conference committee
- 02/23/19 Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (35-Y 2-N 1-A)
- 02/23/19 House: Conference report agreed to by House (94-Y 4-N)
- 02/23/19 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (94-Y 4-N)
- 03/07/19 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/07/19 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1554ER)
- 03/07/19 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/09/19 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/19 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2019
- 03/11/19 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 03/26/19 Senate: Governor's recommendation received by Senate
- 04/03/19 Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (38-Y 0-N)
- 04/03/19 House: House concurred in Governor's recommendation (99-Y 0-N)
- 04/03/19 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (99-Y 0-N)
- 04/03/19 Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
- 04/03/19 Senate: Reenrolled
- 04/03/19 Senate: Reenrolled bill text (SB1554ER2)
- 04/03/19 Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 04/03/19 House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 04/03/19 House: Enacted, Chapter 843 (effective 7/1/19)
- 04/03/19 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0843)