Virginia House Bill 228 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 9 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-03-09 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0252)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Virginia Public Records Act; records retained in electronic medium. Provides that notwithstanding any provision of law requiring a public record to be retained in a tangible medium, an agency may retain any public record in an electronic medium, provided that the record remains accessible for the duration of its retention schedule and meets all other requirements of the Virginia Public Records Act (§42.1-76 et seq.). The bill provides that this provision shall not be deemed to affect any law governing the retention of exhibits received into evidence in a criminal case in any court.

Virginia Public Records Act; records retained in electronic medium.

Del. Mark Cole [R]

2018-02-22 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-21 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-19 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-31 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-25 - House - House: Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-23 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-23 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-09		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0252)
2018-03-09		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 252 (effective 7/1/18)
2018-03-02		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
2018-03-02	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
2018-02-28	Senate	Signed by President
2018-02-26	House	Signed by Speaker
2018-02-26	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB228ER)
2018-02-26	House	Enrolled
2018-02-22	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2018-02-22	Senate	Read third time
2018-02-21	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2018-02-19	Senate	Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
2018-02-01	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2018-02-01	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2018-01-31	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
2018-01-31	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
2018-01-30	House	Read second time and engrossed
2018-01-29	House	Read first time
2018-01-25	House	Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N)
2018-01-23	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
2018-01-17	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 18102370D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
42	1	86.01	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB228
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB228+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB228ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0252+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H1104V0008+HB0228
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H1104V0028+HB0228
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H11V0020+HB0228
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+HV0147+HB0228
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S12V0160+HB0228
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0596HB0228+HB0228
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0620HB0228+HB0228