Virginia Senate Bill 1492 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 19 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-03-19 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

FOIA; exclusions; proprietary records and trade secrets; Virginia Telecommunication Initiative. Excludes trade secrets, financial information, and research-related information supplied to the Department of Housing and Community Development (the Department) as part of any grant application submitted to the Department pursuant to certain requirements set out in the Code or pursuant to the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board or the Virginia Telecommunication Initiative as authorized by the appropriation act from the mandatory disclosure provisions of FOIA, if such disclosure would be harmful to the competitive position of the applicant. The bill provides that in order for such trade secrets, financial information, and research-related information to be excluded, the applicant shall (i) invoke this exclusion upon submission of the data or other materials for which protection from disclosure is sought, (ii) identify with specificity the data or other materials for which protection is sought, and (iii) state the reasons why protection is necessary. The Department is directed to determine whether the requested exclusion from disclosure is necessary to protect the trade secrets or confidential proprietary information of the applicant.

FOIA; exclusions, proprietary records and trade secrets.

Sen. Benton Chafin [R]

2019-02-19 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (95-Y 4-N) (Y: 95 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-14 - House - House: Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-12 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-28 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments (12-Y 0-N) (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-19		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629)
2019-03-19		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 629 (effective 7/1/19)
2019-03-04		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
2019-03-04	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
2019-02-22	House	Signed by Speaker
2019-02-22	Senate	Signed by President
2019-02-22	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1492ER)
2019-02-22	Senate	Enrolled
2019-02-19	House	VOTE: PASSAGE (95-Y 4-N)
2019-02-19	House	Passed House (95-Y 4-N)
2019-02-19	House	Read third time
2019-02-18	House	Read second time
2019-02-14	House	Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N)
2019-02-12	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
2019-02-07	House	Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4
2019-02-06	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2019-02-06	House	Read first time
2019-02-06	House	Placed on Calendar
2019-02-01	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2019-01-31	Senate	Printed as engrossed 19102327D-E
2019-01-31	Senate	Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1492E
2019-01-31	Senate	Committee amendments agreed to
2019-01-31	Senate	Reading of amendments waived
2019-01-31	Senate	Read second time
2019-01-30	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2019-01-28	Senate	Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments (12-Y 0-N)
2019-01-21	Senate	Assigned GL&T sub: #1
2019-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2019-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102327D

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

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1492
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1492+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1492E+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1492ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0629+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S12V0073+SB1492
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0248SB1492+SB1492
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0278SB1492+SB1492
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H1104V0029+SB1492
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H11V0273+SB1492
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV3031+SB1492