Virginia House Bill 213 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on December 29 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-13 - Left in General Laws
Pending: House General Laws Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council; formal advisory opinions; immunity from civil penalty. Requires that formal advisory opinions issued by the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council (Council) be approved by the Council and, after such approval, be published on the Council's website. The bill also provides that no officer, employee, or member of a public body shall be found to have willfully and knowingly violated certain enumerated provisions of the Freedom of Information Act if the alleged violation resulted from his good faith reliance on a formal advisory opinion of the Council made in response to his written request for such opinion and such opinion was made after a full disclosure of the facts.

Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council; formal advisory opinions, immunity.

Del. Michael Mullin [D]

2018-01-23 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (7-Y 1-N) (Y: 7 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-23 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (7-Y 1-N) (Y: 7 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-13	House	Left in General Laws
2018-01-23	House	Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (7-Y 1-N)
2018-01-19	House	Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4
2017-12-29	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2017-12-29	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101377D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	3715	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB213
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB213+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H1104V0012+HB0213
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H1104V0032+HB0213