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2021 SESSION
SB 1343 Virginia Freedom of Information Act; proprietary records and trade secrets.
Introduced by: Jill Holtzman Vogel | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; proprietary records and trade secrets; carbon sequestration agreements. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act proprietary information, voluntarily provided by a private business under a promise of confidentiality from a public body, used by the public body for a carbon sequestration agreement. The bill requires the private business to specify the records for which protection is sought before submitting them to the public body and to state the reasons why protection is necessary.
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HISTORY
- 01/12/21 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101724D
- 01/12/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 01/20/21 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 01/22/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- 01/25/21 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/26/21 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/02/21 House: Read first time
- 02/02/21 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/08/21 House: Continued to Special Session 1 in General Laws by voice vote