SB1029
FOIA; procedure for responding to requests, charges, posting of notice of rights & responsibilities.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Virginia Freedom of Information Act; procedure for responding to requests; charges; posting of notice of rights and responsibilities.
Limits the fees charged for producing public records to the median hourly rate of pay of employees of the public body or the actual hourly rate of pay of the person performing the work, whichever is less, and provides that a public body may petition a court for relief from ... (More) this fee limit if there is no one who can process the request at the median hourly rate of pay or less. The bill makes corresponding amendments to the required statement on charges in the notice of rights and responsibilities that must be posted on a public body's website. The bill also amends existing law providing that a public body may petition a court for additional time to respond to a request for public records to allow such petitions to be heard in either general district or circuit court, to give such petitions priority on the court's docket, and to toll the response time while such a petition is pending before a court. The bill makes technical amendments, including moving provisions regarding charges for the production of public records into a separate section of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/07/2025 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101081D
- 01/07/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 01/22/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1029)
- 01/22/2025 - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N)
- 01/22/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 01/29/2025 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Read second time
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Finance and Appropriations Amendment agreed to
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Printed as engrossed 25101081D-E
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 2-N)
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1029)
- 02/06/2025 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/06/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/06/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/09/2025 - House: Assigned GL sub: Procurement/Open Government
- 02/10/2025 - House: Placed on General Laws Agenda
- 02/11/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
- 02/12/2025 - House: Placed on General Laws Agenda
- 02/13/2025 - House: Reported from General Laws (16-Y 3-N)
- 02/17/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/18/2025 - House: Passed by for the day
- 02/19/2025 - House: Motion to rerefer to General Laws agreed to
- 02/19/2025 - House: Rereferred to General Laws
- 02/19/2025 - House: Left in General Laws
