Virginia Senate Bill 1351 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 30 2023 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-02-22 - Left in General Laws
Pending: House General Laws Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings; local and regional public bodies. Allows, with certain exceptions, local and regional public bodies to convene no more than 50 percent of the meetings held per calendar year rounded up to the next whole number as an all-virtual public meeting. Current law limits all-virtual public meetings to no more than two times per calendar year or 25 percent of the meetings held per calendar year rounded up to the next whole number, whichever is greater, and prohibits any such meeting from being held consecutively with another all-virtual public meeting. Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings; local and regional public bodies. Allows, with certain exceptions, local and regional public bodies to convene no more than 50 percent of the meetings held per calendar year rounded up to the next whole number as an all-virtual public meeting. Current law limits all-virtual public meetings to no more than two times per calendar year or 25 percent of the meetings held per calendar year rounded up to the next whole number, whichever is greater, and prohibits any such meeting from being held consecutively with another all-virtual public meeting.

FOIA; virtual public meetings, etc.

Sen. Dave Marsden [D]

2023-02-14 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (25-Y 14-N) (Y: 25 N: 14 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-25 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (10-Y 5-N) (Y: 10 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-22	House	Left in General Laws
2023-02-14	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
2023-02-13	House	Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4
2023-02-09	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2023-02-09	House	Read first time
2023-02-09	House	Placed on Calendar
2023-01-31	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (25-Y 14-N)
2023-01-30	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1351S1
2023-01-30	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 23105274D-S1
2023-01-30	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2023-01-30	Senate	Read second time
2023-01-27	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2023-01-25	Senate	Committee substitute printed 23105274D-S1
2023-01-25	Senate	Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (10-Y 5-N)
2023-01-11	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2023-01-11	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102031D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	3708.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1351
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1351+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1351S1+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23105274D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1351F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1351FS1122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S12V0079+SB1351
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0133SB1351+SB1351
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0174SB1351+SB1351
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H1104V0032+SB1351