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2019 SESSION
19101191DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 58.1-3131 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 58.1-3131. Warrants; recordkeeping requirements; release of information.
The treasurer shall provide and keep a
well-bound book,
maintain a record in which he shall make an entry of all
warrants and other legal demand instruments
legally drawn upon him by the governing body and presented for payment, stating
correctly the amount, number, in whose favor drawn and the date such warrant
was issued. All such warrants and other legal
demand instruments shall be paid, in the order presented,
out of the fund drawn upon.
No information contained in the list
record of warrants and other legal
demand instruments, including any invoice that has been presented
to a locality for payment, and the locality has attempted to pay it, but the
payment has not been completed because electronic payment has failed or a check
was mailed but not cashed, shall be released for any purpose except (i) that
the local governing body may publish aggregated information relating to
warrants and other legal demand instruments
paid, as classified by expenditure item, recipient, date, or disbursement, or
(ii) as a means of establishing the status of a claim previously reported as
having been paid when a person legally entitled to the funds presents evidence
that a previously submitted claim has not been paid. In no case, however, shall
the governing body of any county, city, or town publish any information that is
prohibited from release under federal or state law, including but not limited
to confidential records held pursuant to § 58.1-3.