Virginia House Bill 959 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-13 - Left in General Laws
Pending: House General Laws Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; transfer of public records. Requires a public body initiating a transfer of public records to any entity, including to any other public body, to remain the custodian of those records only if the public body has transferred the entirety of those public records. Current law requires the public body initiating a transfer of public records to remain the custodian if it has transferred possession of any public records. The bill also excludes the transfer of a portion of information contained in a public body's public record to another public body from being considered a transfer of an entire public record.

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; transfer of public records.

Del. David Yancey [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-13	House	Left in General Laws
2018-01-09	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2018-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103301D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	3704	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB959
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB959+hil