Virginia House Bill 2223 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-02-02 - Tabled in General Laws by voice vote
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; right to speak at open meetings. Requires that every public body afford an opportunity for public comment during any open meeting and requires that the public comment periods be noticed on the public body's agenda. The bill permits the public body to have discretion in where it places the public comment period on its agenda and permits the public body to adopt reasonable rules governing the public comment portion of the meeting, including imposing reasonable restrictions on time, place, and manner. The bill requires that for meetings of all public bodies, not just those state public bodies on which there is at least one member appointed by the Governor as in current law, the notice provided for any such meeting include a statement as to approximately at what point during the meeting public comment will be received.

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; right to speak at open meetings.

Del. Kaye Kory [D]

Del. Benjamin Cline [R]

Del. James LeMunyon [R]

2017-01-26 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (5-Y 2-N) (Y: 5 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-02	House	Tabled in General Laws by voice vote
2017-01-26	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (5-Y 2-N)
2017-01-16	House	Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2
2017-01-11	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2017-01-11	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103756D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	3707	(n/a)	See Bill Text
23	1	1303	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2223
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2223+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H1102V0029+HB2223