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SB1492

FOIA; exclusions, proprietary records and trade secrets.

Status:
Enacted

Chief Patron:
Ben Chafin (R)

Session:
2019 Regular Session

Summary

As Passed House of Origin. 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. (Less)

  • Bill History

  • 01/08/2019 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102327D
  • 01/08/2019 - Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
  • 01/21/2019 - Senate: Assigned GL&T sub: #1
  • 01/25/2019 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1492)
  • 01/28/2019 - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments (12-Y 0-N)
  • 01/30/2019 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 01/31/2019 - Senate: Read second time
  • 01/31/2019 - Senate: Reading of amendments waived
  • 01/31/2019 - Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
  • 01/31/2019 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1492E
  • 01/31/2019 - Senate: Printed as engrossed 19102327D-E
  • 02/01/2019 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
  • 02/06/2019 - House: Placed on Calendar
  • 02/06/2019 - House: Read first time
  • 02/06/2019 - House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
  • 02/07/2019 - House: Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4
  • 02/12/2019 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
  • 02/14/2019 - House: Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N)
  • 02/15/2019 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1492E)
  • 02/18/2019 - House: Read second time
  • 02/19/2019 - House: Read third time
  • 02/19/2019 - House: Passed House (95-Y 4-N)
  • 02/19/2019 - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (95-Y 4-N)
  • 02/22/2019 - Senate: Enrolled
  • 02/22/2019 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1492ER)
  • 02/22/2019 - Senate: Signed by President
  • 02/22/2019 - House: Signed by Speaker
  • 02/25/2019 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1492ER)
  • 03/04/2019 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
  • 03/04/2019 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
  • 03/19/2019 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 629 (effective 7/1/19)
  • 03/19/2019 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629)

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