---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Freedom of Information Act; public body's FOIA officer training."
description: "Virginia Freedom of Information Act; FOIA officer training. Provides that any legal counsel for a public body who is also designated as the public body's Freedom of Information Act officer (FOIA officer) shall complete a training session or online course offered or approved by the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2152"
citation: "Virginia HB 2152 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Betsy B. Carr"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cfd0abee-c93a-42be-9e46-36a06bb34dfa"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2152"
source_hash: "7ee9ee829436379f07b4ca0884b2f88afe8eaa09bb01e483cc1246967354e2d3"
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 2152 (2025) — Virginia Freedom of Information Act; public body's FOIA officer training.

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; FOIA officer training. Provides that any legal counsel for a public body who is also designated as the public body's Freedom of Information Act officer (FOIA officer) shall complete a training session or online course offered or approved by the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1015314.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1077506.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1068668.PDF)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 2-N) — **97–2** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 1-N) — **20–1** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting and rereferred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and rereferred to Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of Passed Senate with substitute block vote agreed to (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Betsy B. Carr — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25104555D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-07** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-16** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2152)
- **2025-01-17** Assigned GL sub: Procurement/Open Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting and referred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-23** Reported from General Laws and referred to Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-24** Assigned Approps sub: General Government and Capital Outlay `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-29** Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 2-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Reported from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-19** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-19** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-20** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-20** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2152ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2152)
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 533 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cfd0abee-c93a-42be-9e46-36a06bb34dfa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).