republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-2143.md

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Bill	FOIA; training approved by Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council, online courses offered.	Requires the Freedom of Information Advisory Council to maintain on its website a listing of all FOIA officers, including name, contact information, and the name of the public body such FOIA officers serve. The bill requires the name and contact information of FOIA officers trained by legal counsel of a public body to be submitted to the Council by July 1 of each year on a form developed by the Council for that purpose and to be updated in a timely manner in the event of any changes to such information. The bill also provides that training through an online course offered by the Council shall satisfy the annual training requirement for FOIA officers.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 2143	Virginia HB 2143 (2017)	bill	Administration of Government Consumer Protection	enacted	James M. LeMunyon	4	17	8	2017-01-11	2017-03-03	openstates	ocd-bill/c1f4f67c-ebc2-48df-b11a-9050b3c4d10b	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2143	766b13ee45c9fa7334c9a1194840e1f3cc24bf872f33efb7143cd4ba0d71298c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2143 (2017) — FOIA; training approved by Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council, online courses offered.

Requires the Freedom of Information Advisory Council to maintain on its website a listing of all FOIA officers, including name, contact information, and the name of the public body such FOIA officers serve. The bill requires the name and contact information of FOIA officers trained by legal counsel of a public body to be submitted to the Council by July 1 of each year on a form developed by the Council for that purpose and to be updated in a timely manner in the event of any changes to such information. The bill also provides that training through an online course offered by the Council shall satisfy the annual training requirement for FOIA officers.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0290) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2143ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Committee substitute printed 17104679D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100881D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from General Laws and Technology — 14–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from General Laws with substitute — 20–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 7–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 39–0 (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 17100881D 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 reading-2
• 2017-02-06 Committee substitute agreed to 17104679D-H1
• 2017-02-06 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2143H1
• 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
• 2017-03-03 Approved by Governor-Chapter 290 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c1f4f67c-ebc2-48df-b11a-9050b3c4d10b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).