Virginia Senate Bill 161 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on April 3 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-04-03 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0524)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; participation in meetings in event of emergency or personal matters. Removes the requirement that a public body approve by a majority vote of the members present at a meeting the remote participation in the meeting by one of its members. The bill instead requires the public body to have adopted a written policy allowing for and governing participation including an approval process for such participation of its members by electronic communication means. Once adopted, the public body shall apply this policy strictly and uniformly, without exception, to its entire membership, and without regard to the identity of the member requesting remote participation or the matters that will be considered or voted on at the meeting.

FOIA; participation in meetings by electronic communication in event of emergency, etc.

Sen. Barbara Favola [D]

2014-03-05 - Senate - Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N 1-A) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2014-03-04 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 102 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-27 - House - House: Reported from General Laws with substitute (20-Y 0-N) (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-25 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-04-03		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0524)
2014-04-03		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 524 (effective 7/1/14)
2014-03-10	Senate	Signed by President
2014-03-07	House	Signed by Speaker
2014-03-07	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB161ER)
2014-03-07	Senate	Enrolled
2014-03-05	Senate	Title replaced 14105353D-H1
2014-03-05	Senate	House substitute agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N 1-A)
2014-03-04	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
2014-03-04	House	Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
2014-03-04	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB161H1
2014-03-04	House	Committee substitute agreed to 14105353D-H1
2014-03-04	House	Read third time
2014-03-03	House	Read second time
2014-02-27	House	Committee substitute printed 14105353D-H1
2014-02-27	House	Reported from General Laws with substitute (20-Y 0-N)
2014-02-25	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 0-N)
2014-02-14	House	Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2
2014-02-07	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2014-02-07	House	Read first time
2014-02-07	House	Placed on Calendar
2014-01-31	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2014-01-30	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB161S1
2014-01-30	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 14104302D-S1
2014-01-30	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2014-01-30	Senate	Read second time
2014-01-29	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2014-01-27	Senate	Committee substitute printed 14104302D-S1
2014-01-27	Senate	Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (13-Y 0-N)
2013-12-31	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2013-12-31	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14102052D

HB193 (Same As) 2014-04-03 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	3708.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+SB161
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB161+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB161S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB161H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+SB161ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+CHAP0524+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+S12V0077+SB0161
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0204SB0161+SB0161
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0222SB0161+SB0161
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+H1102V0024+SB0161
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+H11V0190+SB0161
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+HV1264+SB0161
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0784SB0161+SB0161