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Bill Virginia Freedom of Information Act; proprietary records and trade secrets. Virginia Freedom of Information Act; proprietaryrecords and trade secrets; carbon sequestration agreements. Excludesfrom the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Virginia Freedomof Information Act proprietary information, voluntarily providedby a private business under a promise of confidentiality from a publicbody, used by the public body for a carbon sequestration agreement.The bill requires the private business to specify the records forwhich protection is sought before submitting them to the public bodyand to state the reasons why protection is necessary. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2021 SB 1343 Virginia SB 1343 (2021)
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Virginia SB 1343 (2021) — Virginia Freedom of Information Act; proprietary records and trade secrets.

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; proprietaryrecords and trade secrets; carbon sequestration agreements. Excludesfrom the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Virginia Freedomof Information Act proprietary information, voluntarily providedby a private business under a promise of confidentiality from a publicbody, used by the public body for a carbon sequestration agreement.The bill requires the private business to specify the records forwhich protection is sought before submitting them to the public bodyand to state the reasons why protection is necessary.

Version chain

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

  1. CHAP0298 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101724D (committee substitute) — source
  3. SB1343ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Continued to Special Session 1 in General Laws — 00 (fail) · lower
  • Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 370 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Passage (88-Y 7-N 1-A) — 877 (pass) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 80 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — 140 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Jill Holtzman Vogel — primary (person)
  • Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101724D introduction
  • 2021-01-12 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
  • 2021-01-14 Impact statement from DPB (SB1343)
  • 2021-01-20 Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N 1-A) committee-passage
  • 2021-01-22 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
  • 2021-01-25 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2021-01-26 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2021-02-02 Placed on Calendar
  • 2021-02-02 Read first time reading-1
  • 2021-02-02 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
  • 2021-02-08 Continued to Special Session 1 in General Laws
  • 2021-02-09 Assigned GL sub: Open Government/Procurement referral-committee
  • 2021-02-16 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
  • 2021-02-18 Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2021-02-22 Read second time reading-2
  • 2021-02-23 Read third time reading-3
  • 2021-02-23 Passed by for the day
  • 2021-02-24 Passed by for the day
  • 2021-02-25 Read third time reading-3
  • 2021-02-25 Passed House (88-Y 7-N 1-A) passage
  • 2021-02-25 VOTE: Passage (88-Y 7-N 1-A)
  • 2021-03-09 Enrolled
  • 2021-03-09 Impact statement from DPB (SB1343ER)
  • 2021-03-09 Signed by President
  • 2021-03-11 Signed by Speaker
  • 2021-03-15 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 15, 2021
  • 2021-03-15 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
  • 2021-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 298 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/56d73e96-609c-4139-8174-e1b5bb0a447e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).