Virginia Senate Bill 706 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 21 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-02-15 - Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; record exclusion for trade secrets submitted to the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of FOIA trade secrets, as defined in the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (§59.1-336 et seq.), submitted to the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy as part of the required permit or permit modification to commence ground-disturbing activities. The bill provides that in order for such trade secrets to be excluded, the submitting party shall (i) invoke this exclusion upon submission of the data or materials for which protection from disclosure is sought, (ii) identify the data or materials for which protection is sought, and (iii) state the reasons why protection is necessary.

FOIA; record exclusion for trade secrets submitted to Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy.

Sen. Benton Chafin [R]

2016-02-15 - Senate - Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 0-N) (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-15	Senate	Stricken at request of Patron in General Laws and Technology (9-Y 0-N)
2016-01-28	Senate	Assigned GL&T sub: #2
2016-01-21	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2016-01-21	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 16104345D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	3705.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text
45	1	361.29	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+SB706
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB706+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S12V0082+SB0706