Virginia House Bill 837 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on March 31 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-03-31 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0421)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); state agencies to post notice of allowable charges for producing records. Requires state agencies in the executive branch to post on their respective public government websites the following statement: "A public body may make reasonable charges not to exceed its actual cost incurred in accessing, duplicating, supplying, or searching for the requested records. No public body shall impose any extraneous, intermediary, or surplus fees or expenses to recoup the general costs associated with creating or maintaining records or transacting the general business of the public body. Any duplicating fee charged by a public body shall not exceed the actual cost of duplication. All charges for the supplying of requested records shall be estimated in advance at the request of the citizen as set forth in subsection F of § 2.2-3704 of the Code of Virginia."

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; state agencies to post notice of allowable charges.

Del. Mark Keam [D]

Del. David Ramadan [R]

2014-02-27 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-26 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-24 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-10 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) (Y: 101 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-04 - House - House: Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-30 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-16 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (6-Y 0-N) (Y: 6 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-03-31		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0421)
2014-03-31		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 421 (effective 7/1/14)
2014-03-07	Senate	Signed by President
2014-03-04	House	Signed by Speaker
2014-03-04	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB837ER)
2014-03-04	House	Enrolled
2014-02-27	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2014-02-27	Senate	Read third time
2014-02-26	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2014-02-24	Senate	Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
2014-02-11	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2014-02-11	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2014-02-10	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
2014-02-10	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
2014-02-07	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB837H1
2014-02-07	House	Committee substitute agreed to 14104054D-H1
2014-02-07	House	Read second time
2014-02-06	House	Read first time
2014-02-04	House	Committee substitute printed 14104054D-H1
2014-02-04	House	Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
2014-01-30	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 0-N)
2014-01-30	House	Reconsideration by Subcommittee by voice vote
2014-01-16	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (6-Y 0-N)
2014-01-10	House	Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2
2014-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2014-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14102498D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+HB837
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB837+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB837H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB837ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+CHAP0421+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+H1102V0003+HB0837
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+H1102V0017+HB0837
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+H11V0083+HB0837
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+HV0567+HB0837
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+S12V0146+HB0837
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0585HB0837+HB0837
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0636HB0837+HB0837