Virginia Senate Bill 1292 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-02-02 - Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (8-Y 8-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); trade secrets submitted to the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of FOIA trade secrets, as defined in the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (? 59.1-336 et seq.), submitted to the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy that identify chemical ingredient names, the chemical abstracts number for a chemical ingredient, or the amount or concentration of chemicals or ingredients used to stimulate a well pursuant to ? 45.1-361.29 or Department regulations concerning such ground-disturbing activities. The bill requires that for such records to be protected, the submitting party must (i) invoke this FOIA exclusion upon submission of the data or materials for which protection from disclosure is sought, (ii) identify the data or materials for which protection is sought, and (iii) state the reasons why protection is necessary. The bill requires the Department to determine whether the information claimed to be a trade secret is entitled to such protection.

FOIA; trade secrets submitted to the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy.

Sen. Benton Chafin [R]

2017-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (8-Y 8-N) (Y: 8 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2017-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (8-Y 7-N) (Y: 8 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-02	Senate	Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (8-Y 8-N)
2017-01-30	Senate	Rereferred to Finance
2017-01-30	Senate	Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (8-Y 7-N)
2017-01-17	Senate	Assigned GL&T sub: #1
2017-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2017-01-10	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101750D

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?171+sum+SB1292
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1292+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S12V0070+SB1292
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S05V0206+SB1292