Virginia House Bill 2199 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-08 - House: Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Journalists as witnesses. Prohibits a body with the authority to issue a subpoena or other compulsory process from compelling a journalist to testify regarding or to produce or disclose in an official proceeding any confidential or nonconfidential information, document, or item obtained or prepared while the person was acting as a journalist or to produce or disclose in an official proceeding the source of any such material. The bill prohibits a subpoena or other compulsory process from compelling the parent, subsidiary, division, or affiliate of a communication service provider or news medium to disclose the information, documents, or items, or the source of such material, that is privileged from disclosure under the provisions of the bill. The bill further authorizes a court, in limited circumstances, to compel a journalist, a journalist's employer, or a person with an independent contract with a journalist to testify regarding or to produce or disclose any information, document, or item or the source of any such material obtained while the person was acting as a journalist.

Journalists; prohibits a body authority to issue a subpoena to testify regarding any information.

Del. Barbara Comstock [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-08		House: Left in Courts of Justice
2011-01-26		House: Subcommittee recommends passing by with letter by voice vote
2011-01-18		House: Assigned Courts sub: #2 Civil
2011-01-12		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2011-01-12		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/11 11103686D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
19	2	282.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	282.8	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	4022.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
8	01	410.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+sum+HB2199
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+HB2199+hil