Virginia House Bill 1389 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 26 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-12-01 - Left in General Laws
Pending: House General Laws Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; record exclusion for trade secrets submitted to the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of FOIA trade secrets, as defined in the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (? 59.1-336 et seq.), submitted to the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy as part of the required permit or permit modification to commence ground-disturbing activities. The bill provides that in order for such trade secrets to be excluded, the submitting party shall (i) invoke this exclusion upon submission of the data or materials for which protection from disclosure is sought, (ii) identify the data or materials for which protection is sought, and (iii) state the reasons why protection is necessary.

FOIA; record exclusion for trade secrets submitted to Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy.

Del. Roxann Robinson [R]

2016-01-28 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (4-Y 2-N) (Y: 4 N: 2 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-12-01	House	Left in General Laws
2016-02-09	House	Continued to 2017 in General Laws by voice vote
2016-01-28	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (4-Y 2-N)
2016-01-27	House	Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2
2016-01-26	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2016-01-26	House	Presented and ordered printed 16104202D
2016-01-26	House	Unanimous consent to introduce

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	3705.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text
45	1	361.29	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1389
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1389+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H1102C0017+HB1389