Virginia House Bill 1275 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 23 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-03-23 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0470)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); record exclusion for trade secrets supplied to the Virginia Department of Transportation. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of FOIA trade secrets, as defined in the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (?§59.1-336 et seq.), supplied to the Department of Transportation as part of an audit, a special investigation, or any study requested by the Department of Transportation. 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.

Virginia FOIA; record exclusion for trade secrets supplied to the VDOT.

Sen. Lashrecse Aird [D]

2018-03-01 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-28 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-26 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-07 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 98 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-01 - House - House: Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-30 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-23		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0470)
2018-03-23		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 470 (effective 7/1/18)
2018-03-14		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, April 9, 2018
2018-03-14	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2018
2018-03-08	Senate	Signed by President
2018-03-05	House	Signed by Speaker
2018-03-05	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1275ER)
2018-03-05	House	Enrolled
2018-03-01	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2018-03-01	Senate	Read third time
2018-02-28	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2018-02-26	Senate	Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 1-N)
2018-02-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2018-02-08	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2018-02-07	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
2018-02-07	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2018-02-06	House	Read second time and engrossed
2018-02-05	House	Read first time
2018-02-01	House	Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N)
2018-01-30	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
2018-01-24	House	Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4
2018-01-10	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2018-01-10	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101540D

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

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1275
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1275+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1275ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0470+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H1104V0049+HB1275
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H11V0086+HB1275
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+HV0407+HB1275
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S12V0197+HB1275
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0749HB1275+HB1275
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0821HB1275+HB1275