VA SB734 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 20 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-20 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0129)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 20 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-20 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0129)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Summary
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings. Amends the number of all-virtual public meetings that public bodies, with certain exceptions, may convene in a calendar year to no more than two times per calendar year or 50 percent of the meetings held per calendar year rounded up to the next whole number, whichever is greater. Current law limits the number of all-virtual public meetings to no more than two times per calendar year or 25 percent of the meetings held per calendar year rounded up to the next whole number, whichever is greater. The bill also provides that with respect to all-virtual public meetings, when audio-visual technology is available, a member of a public body shall, for purposes of a quorum, be considered absent from any portion of the meeting during which visual communication with the member is voluntarily disconnected or otherwise fails or during which audio communication involuntarily fails.
Title
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2024-02-20 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (79-Y 20-N) (Y: 79 N: 20 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-02-15 - House - House: Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 4-N) (Y: 35 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N 1-A) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-15 - House - House: Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 4-N) (Y: 35 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N 1-A) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-20 | Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0129) | |
| 2024-03-20 | Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 129 (effective 7/1/24) | |
| 2024-03-11 | Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 | |
| 2024-03-11 | Senate | Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 |
| 2024-02-29 | Senate | Signed by President |
| 2024-02-26 | House | Signed by Speaker |
| 2024-02-26 | Senate | Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB734ER) |
| 2024-02-26 | Senate | Enrolled |
| 2024-02-20 | House | VOTE: Passage (79-Y 20-N) |
| 2024-02-20 | House | Passed House (79-Y 20-N) |
| 2024-02-20 | House | Read third time |
| 2024-02-19 | House | Read second time |
| 2024-02-15 | House | Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-02-13 | House | Referred to Committee on General Laws |
| 2024-02-13 | House | Read first time |
| 2024-02-13 | House | Placed on Calendar |
| 2024-02-06 | Senate | Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 4-N) |
| 2024-02-05 | Senate | Read second time and engrossed |
| 2024-02-02 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-01-31 | Senate | Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N 1-A) |
| 2024-01-19 | Senate | Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology |
| 2024-01-19 | Senate | Presented and ordered printed 24102038D |
Same As/Similar To
HB894 (Similar To) 2024-03-08 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0056)
