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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Administrative and civil proceedings; protected information, newspersons engaged in journalism."
+description: "Protected information in administrative and civil proceedings; newspersons engaged in journalism. Expands the protected information privilege for newspersons to administrative and civil proceedings. Under current law, a newsperson engaged in journalism shall not be compelled by the Commonwealth or a locality to testify about, disclose, or produce protected information, with certain exceptions, in criminal proceedings only."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 321"
+citation: "Virginia SB 321 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Danica A. Roem"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2024-01-09"
+last_action: "2024-04-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aad77c5f-b9cb-429e-8842-7509156b53ef"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB321"
+source_hash: "dc02c6abf5ee2ee716c92b9aa6bbf42cef3361232589c387814273349dc59cdd"
+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 SB 321 (2024) — Administrative and civil proceedings; protected information, newspersons engaged in journalism.
+
+Protected information in administrative and civil proceedings; newspersons engaged in journalism. Expands the protected information privilege for newspersons to administrative and civil proceedings. Under current law, a newsperson engaged in journalism shall not be compelled by the Commonwealth or a locality to testify about, disclose, or produce protected information, with certain exceptions, in criminal proceedings only.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0589** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0589)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100946D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB321)
+3. **SB321ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB321ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N) — **10–5** (pass) · upper
+- House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (71-Y 28-N) — **70–28** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (11-Y 10-N) — **11–10** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N) — **5–3** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Danica A. Roem — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100946D `filing, introduction`
+- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-10** Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
+- **2024-02-07** Reported from Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2024-02-09** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-12** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-15** Placed on Calendar
+- **2024-02-15** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-15** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-15** Assigned Courts sub: Civil `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-16** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N)
+- **2024-02-23** Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (11-Y 10-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-27** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-28** Committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-02-28** Passed by temporarily
+- **2024-02-28** Engrossed by House as amended
+- **2024-02-28** Passed House with amendments (71-Y 28-N) `passage`
+- **2024-02-28** VOTE: Passage (71-Y 28-N) `passage`
+- **2024-03-01** House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-03-06** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2024-03-06** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB321ER) `passage`
+- **2024-03-06** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2024-03-07** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled`
+- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-04-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 589 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
+- **2024-04-05** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0589)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aad77c5f-b9cb-429e-8842-7509156b53ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+