Virginia House Bill 957 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-11 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Virginia Cyber Initiative Act. Directs the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to work with public and private institutions of higher education, state agencies, and businesses in the Commonwealth to develop a cyber alliance, to be known as the Virginia Cyber Initiative, to reduce cyber risks and encourage economic development in the cybersecurity field. The bill also creates the Virginia Cyber Initiative Fund for the purposes of improving cybersecurity and the economy of the Commonwealth through (i) improving cyber infrastructure, (ii) increasing the focus on cyber job-creating research activities, and (iii) expanding cyber job-creating research activities toward producing more knowledge-based and high-technology cyber jobs in the Commonwealth.

Virginia Cyber Initiative Act; established.

Del. Hala Ayala [D]

Del. Lee Carter [D]

Del. Glenn Davis [R]

Del. Ibraheem Samirah [D]

2020-02-04 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-27 - House - House: Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-22 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-11	House	Left in Appropriations
2020-02-04	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 0-N)
2020-01-27	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2020-01-27	House	Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation (21-Y 0-N)
2020-01-27	House	Assigned App. sub: Compensation & General Government
2020-01-22	House	Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
2020-01-22	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
2020-01-16	House	Assigned CT & I sub: Technology and Innovation
2020-01-07	House	Referred to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation
2020-01-07	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102045D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	5515	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	5518	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB957
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB957+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H2102V0006+HB0957
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H21V0018+HB0957
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H0202V0035+HB0957