Virginia House Bill 1878 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-02-07 - Left in General Laws
Pending: House General Laws Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions to application of chapter; local administrative investigations; disclosure. Clarifies that personal contact information, to include a home or business (i) address, (ii) email address, or (iii) telephone number or comparable number assigned to any other electronic communication device, when furnished in confidence to a local governing body with respect to complainants in local investigations, is exempt from disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. The bill expands the applicability of the exemption to zoning enforcement complaints to all such complaints, not just individual enforcement complaints. The bill also provides that information in completed investigations shall be disclosed in a form that does not reveal the identity of the complainants or persons supplying information to investigators.

FOIA; exclusions to application of chapter, local administrative investigations, disclosure.

Sen. Angelia Williams Graves [D]

Del. Nadarius Clark [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-07	House	Left in General Laws
2023-01-18	House	Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4
2023-01-10	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2023-01-10	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104184D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	3705.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1878
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1878+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23105324A.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB1878F122+PDF