Virginia House Bill 308 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 4 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-16 - Left in General Laws
Pending: House General Laws Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; use of government email accounts required. Requires that any person elected, reelected, appointed or reappointed to any public body not excepted from FOIA must use only official government-provided email accounts to conduct public business. The bill also provides that public officers, appointees, and employees shall use only official government-provided email accounts to conduct public business. However, if a public officer, appointee, or employee inadvertently uses a nongovernment email account to conduct public business, then the email and email address shall be forwarded to the appropriate official for retention as designated by the public body. The bill contains a technical amendment.

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; use of government email accounts required.

Del. Rick Morris [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-16	House	Left in General Laws
2016-01-04	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2016-01-04	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101186D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	3702	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	3704.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB308
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB308+hil