Virginia Senate Bill 1226 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 24 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-03-24 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0737)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; record exclusion for proprietary records and trade secrets; solar energy agreements. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of FOIA proprietary information, voluntarily provided by a private business under a promise of confidentiality from a public body, used by the public body for a solar services agreement. The bill requires the private business to specify the records for which protection is sought before submitting them to the public body and to state the reasons why protection is necessary. The bill also (i) allows a solar services agreement contractor or provider to designate specific provisions in a solar services agreement as proprietary information not subject to disclosure and (ii) authorizes a city to withhold from disclosure such information provided by a private entity in connection with a franchise, lease, or use under a solar services agreement.

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; proprietary records and trade secrets.

Sen. John Edwards [D]

2017-02-22 - Senate - Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-21 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (Y: 98 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-16 - House - House: Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-14 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 5-N) (Y: 35 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 1-N 1-A) (Y: 13 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-24		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0737)
2017-03-24		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 737 (effective 7/1/17)
2017-03-13		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
2017-03-13	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
2017-03-10	Senate	Signed by President
2017-03-07	House	Signed by Speaker
2017-03-07	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1226ER)
2017-03-07	Senate	Enrolled
2017-02-22	Senate	Title replaced 17105461D-H1
2017-02-22	Senate	House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2017-02-21	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
2017-02-21	House	Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
2017-02-21	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1226H1
2017-02-21	House	Committee substitute agreed to 17105461D-H1
2017-02-21	House	Read third time
2017-02-20	House	Read second time
2017-02-16	House	Committee substitute printed 17105461D-H1
2017-02-16	House	Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
2017-02-14	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
2017-02-10	House	Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2
2017-02-08	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2017-02-08	House	Read first time
2017-02-08	House	Placed on Calendar
2017-02-03	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 5-N)
2017-02-02	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2017-02-01	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2017-01-30	Senate	Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 1-N 1-A)
2017-01-17	Senate	Assigned GL&T sub: #1
2017-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2017-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103762D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	3705.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	4329.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1226
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1226+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1226H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1226ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0737+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S12V0058+SB1226
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0229SB1226+SB1226
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0271SB1226+SB1226
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H1102V0063+SB1226
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H11V0228+SB1226
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+HV2526+SB1226
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0834SB1226+SB1226