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type: "Bill"
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title: "Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council; increases membership, effect of missing meetings."
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description: "Increases the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council from 12 members to 14 members by adding one additional member from the House of Delegates and one additional member from the Senate. The bill also provides that if any nonlegislative citizen member of the Council fails to attend a majority of meetings of the Council in a calendar year, the Council shall notify the member's appointing authority, who may, upon receipt of such notification, remove the member and appoint a successor as soon as practicable."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2017"
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identifier: "HB 2144"
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citation: "Virginia HB 2144 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Consumer Protection", "General Assembly"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["James M. LeMunyon"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 19
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2017-01-11"
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last_action: "2017-03-20"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/998b7b0d-7857-48d2-821d-625edff61c2e"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2144"
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source_hash: "cf0c1af3bd260ccb84846edcfeebd14b3d2943cb1cb50e81333485aa2b5bbed2"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 2144 (2017) — Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council; increases membership, effect of missing meetings.
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Increases the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council from 12 members to 14 members by adding one additional member from the House of Delegates and one additional member from the Senate. The bill also provides that if any nonlegislative citizen member of the Council fails to attend a majority of meetings of the Council in a calendar year, the Council shall notify the member's appointing authority, who may, upon receipt of such notification, remove the member and appoint a successor as soon as practicable.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0644)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0644)
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2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2144ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2144ER)
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3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103715D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2144)
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4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17103715D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2144E)
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## Votes
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Rules — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed House — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from General Laws with amendments — **20–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Finance — **16–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- James M. LeMunyon — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103715D `introduction`
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- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-16** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2017-02-06** Committee amendments agreed to
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- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House as amended HB2144E
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- **2017-02-06** Printed as engrossed 17103715D-E
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- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-10** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2017-02-21** Enrolled
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- **2017-02-21** Signed by Speaker
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- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
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- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
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- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
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- **2017-03-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 644 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/998b7b0d-7857-48d2-821d-625edff61c2e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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