Virginia House Bill 609 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-01-31 - Incorporated by Courts of Justice
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; applicability to certain records of the Office of Executive Secretary and judicial officers; duties of Executive Secretary to the Supreme Court. Provides that for the purposes of the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act that are applicable to access to public records, the Office of Executive Secretary to the Supreme Court shall be considered a public body and, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, shall have the same obligations to disclose public records as other custodians of public records. The bill clarifies that the public records provisions of the Freedom of Information Act do not apply to judicial officers or information created or maintained on behalf of judicial officers, but do apply to any administrative records of judicial officers that are maintained by the Office of Executive Secretary and unrelated to a record created, collected, received, or maintained in connection with a particular case. The bill also adds to the duties of the Executive Secretary a role as custodian of records of administrative functions performed by persons employed by him or acting under his direction and of aggregated data regarding Virginia courts that may be obtained from systems maintained by his office. Finally, the bill directs the Supreme Court of Virginia to revise the rules of practice and procedure as necessary to comply with the provisions provided for in the bill.

Virginia FOIA; applicability to certain records of the Office of Executive Secretary.

Del. Jason Miyares [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-31	House	Incorporated by Courts of Justice
2020-01-27	House	Subcommittee recommends incorporating (HB671-Mullin) by voice vote
2020-01-23	House	Assigned Courts sub: Civil
2020-01-21	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2020-01-21	House	Referred from General Laws by voice vote
2020-01-17	House	Assigned GL sub: Open Government/Procurement
2020-01-06	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2020-01-06	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101471D

HB671 (Similar To) 2020-02-05 - Failed to report (defeated) in Courts of Justice (11-Y 11-N)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
17	1	315	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	3701	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	3703	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	3705.7	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB609
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB609+hil