Bill Text: VA HB1731 | 2019 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Treasurers, local; recordkeeping.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-02-19 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0031) [HB1731 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2019-HB1731-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §58.1-3131 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§58.1-3131. Warrants; recordkeeping requirements; release of information.
The treasurer shall provide and keep a well-bound book,
maintain a record in which he shall make an entry of all warrants and
other legal demand instruments legally drawn upon him by the governing body
and presented for payment, stating correctly the amount, number, in whose favor
drawn and the date such warrant was issued. All such warrants and other legal
demand instruments shall be paid, in the order presented, out of the fund
drawn upon.
No information contained in the list record of
warrants and other legal demand instruments, including any invoice that
has been presented to a locality for payment, and the locality has attempted to
pay it, but the payment has not been completed because electronic payment has
failed or a check was mailed but not cashed, shall be released for any purpose
except (i) that the local governing body may publish aggregated information
relating to warrants and other legal demand instruments paid, as
classified by expenditure item, recipient, date, or disbursement, or (ii) as a
means of establishing the status of a claim previously reported as having been
paid when a person legally entitled to the funds presents evidence that a
previously submitted claim has not been paid. In no case, however, shall the
governing body of any county, city, or town publish any information that is
prohibited from release under federal or state law, including but not limited
to confidential records held pursuant to §58.1-3.