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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council; online public comment form."
+description: "Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council; online public comment form."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 2146"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2146 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Computer Services and Uses", "Consumer Protection"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["James M. LeMunyon"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2017-01-11"
+last_action: "2017-03-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/570b22d0-820a-42ae-8955-68f5efe9a250"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2146"
+source_hash: "9910a0ca67330f88931b46096bcd508bdfd0a5dcbb954135b86eab0b360b3747"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia HB 2146 (2017) — Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council; online public comment form.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0645)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0645)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2146ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2146ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101141D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2146)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from General Laws — **20–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- James M. LeMunyon — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101141D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-16** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-20** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-20** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
+- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
+- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
+- **2017-03-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 645 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/570b22d0-820a-42ae-8955-68f5efe9a250`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+