VirginiaFOIA; procedure for responding to requests, charges, posting of notice of rights & responsibilities.
What it does
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; procedure for responding to requests; charges; posting of notice of rights and responsibilities. Limits the fees charged for producing public records to the median hourly rate of pay of employees of the public body or the actual hourly rate of pay of the person performing the work, whichever is less, and provides that a public body may petition a court for relief from this fee limit if there is no one who can process the request at the median hourly rate of pay or less. The bill makes corresponding amendments to the required statement on charges in the notice of rights and responsibilities that must be posted on a public body's website.
More detail
The bill also amends existing law providing that a public body may petition a court for additional time to respond to a request for public records to allow such petitions to be heard in either general district or circuit court, to give such petitions priority on the court's docket, and to toll the response time while such a petition is pending before a court. The bill makes technical amendments, including moving provisions regarding charges for the production of public records into a separate section of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
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- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Feb 19Left in General LawsLatest
- Feb 19Rereferred to General LawsMinor
- Feb 19Motion to rerefer to General Laws agreed to
- Feb 18Passed by for the day
- Feb 17Read second timeMinor
- Feb 13Reported from General Laws (16-Y 3-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from General Laws (16-Y 3-N). Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 11Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
- Vote recorded Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N). Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 9Assigned GL sub: Procurement/Open GovernmentMinor
- Feb 6Referred to Committee on General LawsMinor
- Feb 6Read first timeMinor
- Feb 6Placed on Calendar
- Feb 3Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1029)
- Vote recorded Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 2-N). Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 3Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 2-N)Passed Senate
- Jan 31Printed as engrossed 25101081D-E
- Jan 31Engrossed by Senate as amended
- Jan 31Finance and Appropriations Amendment agreed toMajor
- Jan 31Reading of amendment waived
- Jan 31Read second timeMinor
- Jan 30Passed by for the day
- Vote recorded Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A). Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 30Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A)
- Jan 30Rules suspended
- Jan 29Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (14-Y 0-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (14-Y 0-N). Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 22Reported from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N). Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 22Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1029)
- Jan 7Referred to Committee on General Laws and TechnologyMinor
- Jan 7Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101081DIntroduced