Virginia House Bill 2269 (Prior Session Legislation)

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

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; access to criminal records. Provides that criminal records are exempt from the mandatory provisions of FOIA prior to judicial proceedings, but pertinent records or pertinent information from records that are otherwise unlawful to disclose shall be disclosed in any judicial proceeding where such records or information is requested in the interest of transparency of government, except where disclosure of any pertinent record or information is specifically prohibited by law. A denial without legal grounds of pertinent records or information disclosure or a failure upon appeal to remand a case back to the court where there had been a denial without legal grounds of pertinent records or information disclosure by any judge is grounds for judicial impeachment, enforceable retroactively, in the interest of forcing the executive and judicial departments to become and to remain separate and distinct in accordance with Article I, Section 5 and Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution of Virginia.

Freedom of Information Act; criminal records are exempt from mandatory provisions.

Del. Mark Keam [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-08		House: Left in General Laws
2011-01-27		House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2011-01-20		House: Assigned GL sub: #2 FOIA/Procurement
2011-01-12		House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
2011-01-12		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/11 11102969D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	3706	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+sum+HB2269
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+HB2269+hil