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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusion of records relating to public safety."
+description: "Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusion of records relating to public safety."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 727"
+citation: "Virginia HB 727 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Consumer Protection"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Karrie K. Delaney"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2018-01-09"
+last_action: "2018-02-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6ea6113-3388-4419-bea5-0ff8d268c42f"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB727"
+source_hash: "00a7fb32056c0668f1a2024e0e996c1c7f736310bdea9fd388582d63e977d7b1"
+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 727 (2018) — Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusion of records relating to public safety.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0052)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+CHAP0052)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB727ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB727ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104378D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB727)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from General Laws — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Karrie K. Delaney — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104378D `introduction`
+- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-19** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4 `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-02-06** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-19** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-19** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-21** Signed by President
+- **2018-02-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/22/18
+- **2018-02-22** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 1, 2018
+- **2018-02-28** Approved by Governor-Chapter 52 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c6ea6113-3388-4419-bea5-0ff8d268c42f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+