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SB 1126 Resource management plans; discussion or consideration of personal information in closed meetings.

Introduced by: Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

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 HB 1618.

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

Resource management plans; consideration of certain records in closed meetings. Creates an open meeting exemption for those meetings or portions of meetings of a Resource Management Plan Technical Review Committee, a Soil and Water Conservation District Board, a review committee of the Department of Conservation and Recreation, or the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board when such body discusses or considers records currently excluded from FOIA. 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 HB 1618.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Resource management plans; consideration of certain records in closed meetings. Adds to the list of purposes for which public bodies may hold closed meetings the purpose of discussing certain records that contain information collected pursuant to the creation of a resource management plan. The bill permits only specified review committees or boards to close their meetings, or portions of their meetings, when discussing the records. The bill does not remove the general bar against closed meetings when the records have been transformed into an aggregate form or when the person who is the subject of the regulations has consented to their release.