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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 5090 Virginia Freedom of Information Act; law-enforcement criminal incident information, etc.
Introduced by: Chris L. Hurst | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; law-enforcement criminal incident information; criminal investigative files. Adds criminal investigative files, defined in the bill, to the types of law-enforcement and criminal records required to be released in accordance with the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Under current law, the release of criminal investigative files is discretionary. The bill also allows a law-enforcement agency or attorney for the Commonwealth to petition a court of record for permission not to release criminal incident information that would otherwise be subject to release, if the release of such information is likely to jeopardize an ongoing investigation or cause certain other harms.
FULL TEXT
- 08/19/20 House: Presented and ordered printed 20200705D pdf
- 08/24/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20200992D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 09/09/20 House: Floor substitute printed 20201145D-H2 (Hurst) pdf
- 09/09/20 House: Floor substitute printed 20201160D-H3 (Hurst) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 08/19/20 House: Presented and ordered printed 20200705D
- 08/19/20 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 08/24/20 House: Reported from General Laws with substitute (16-Y 6-N)
- 08/24/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20200992D-H1
- 08/24/20 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 08/26/20 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (14-Y 7-N)
- 08/28/20 House: Read first time
- 09/03/20 House: Motion to refer to committee agreed to
- 09/03/20 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 09/04/20 House: Reported from Appropriations (13-Y 9-N)
- 09/08/20 House: Read first time
- 09/09/20 House: Floor substitute printed 20201145D-H2 (Hurst)
- 09/09/20 House: Floor substitute printed 20201160D-H3 (Hurst)
- 09/09/20 House: Read second time
- 09/09/20 House: General Laws Committee substitute rejected 20200992D-H1
- 09/09/20 House: Delegate Campbell's amendments withdrawn
- 09/09/20 House: Courts of Justice Committee amendments ruled out of order
- 09/09/20 House: Substitute by Delegate Hurst rejected 20201145D-H2
- 09/09/20 House: Substitute by Delegate Hurst agreed to 20201160D-H3
- 09/09/20 House: Engrossed by House - floor substitute HB5090H3
- 09/10/20 House: Read third time and passed House (59-Y 37-N)
- 09/10/20 House: VOTE: Passage (59-Y 37-N)
- 09/15/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 09/15/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 09/18/20 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (14-Y 0-N)