Virginia Freedom of Information Act; proprietary records and trade secrets. (SB1343)

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Progress

✓	Introduced
✓	Passed Committee
☐	Passed House
☐	Passed Senate
☐	Signed by Governor
☐	Became Law

Description

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; proprietary records and trade secrets; carbon sequestration agreements. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act proprietary information, voluntarily provided by a private business under a promise of confidentiality from a public body, used by the public body for a carbon sequestration agreement. The bill requires the private business to specify the records for which protection is sought before submitting them to the public body and to state the reasons why protection is necessary. Read the Bill »

Status

01/20/2021: passed committee

History

Date	Action
01/12/2021	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101724D
01/12/2021	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
01/14/2021	Impact statement from DPB (SB1343)
01/20/2021	Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N 1-A)