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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Freedom of Information Act; proprietary records and trade secrets."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1343"
citation: "Virginia SB 1343 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jill Holtzman Vogel"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56d73e96-609c-4139-8174-e1b5bb0a447e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1343"
source_hash: "715a4355867141a55be6a537f412e42cc304c42c1c017ef68316cbe07f91315f"
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 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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0298)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101724D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1343)
3. **SB1343ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1343ER)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56d73e96-609c-4139-8174-e1b5bb0a447e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).