Virginia Senate Bill 678 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 20 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-02-08 - Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (15-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); time period for responding to requests for records. Allows any county, city, or town with a population of less than 10,000 to have an additional 30 working days to respond to a FOIA request in cases where it is practically impossible to provide the requested records or to determine whether they are available within the initial five-work-day period. Currently, in such cases, a public body has seven additional working days to respond. The bill contains a technical amendment.

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; time period for responding to requests for records.

Del. Thomas Garrett [R]

2016-02-08 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-08	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (15-Y 0-N)
2016-02-08	Senate	Committee amendments
2016-01-28	Senate	Assigned GL&T sub: #2
2016-01-20	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2016-01-20	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 16103284D

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?161+sum+SB678
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB678+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S12V0063+SB0678