republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-204.md

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Bill	Virginia Freedom of Information Act; release of criminal investigative files exception.	Virginia Freedom of Information Act; release of criminal investigative files exception. Exempts a victim's insurance company and attorney from the prohibition on releasing photographic, audio, video, or other records depicting such victim. The bill also permits a victim, a victim's immediate family members if the victim is deceased, a victim's parent or guardian, the victim's insurance company, or the victim's attorney to waive the 14-day period for a public body to respond to a request for criminal investigative files.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 204	Virginia SB 204 (2024)	bill		enacted	J.D. "Danny" Diggs	4	32	6	2024-01-08	2024-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/db2fcdb6-0e3c-4125-82d8-d5bd5ed20b28	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB204	aaa40cdc8045027f2796270f3a6ba2b90373b3520ebbd22e25482d44021998bd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 204 (2024) — Virginia Freedom of Information Act; release of criminal investigative files exception.

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; release of criminal investigative files exception. Exempts a victim's insurance company and attorney from the prohibition on releasing photographic, audio, video, or other records depicting such victim. The bill also permits a victim, a victim's immediate family members if the victim is deceased, a victim's parent or guardian, the victim's insurance company, or the victim's attorney to waive the 14-day period for a public body to respond to a request for criminal investigative files.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0580 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102399D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 24102399D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB204ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (13-Y 2-N) — 13–2 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• J.D. "Danny" Diggs — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102399D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-08 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2024-01-15 Impact statement from DPB (SB204)
• 2024-01-17 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2024-01-17 Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (13-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-19 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-22 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-01-22 Reading of amendment waived
• 2024-01-22 Committee amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-01-22 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB204E
• 2024-01-22 Printed as engrossed 24102399D-E
• 2024-01-23 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-24 Impact statement from DPB (SB204E)
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-02-14 Assigned GL sub: Procurement/Open Government referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-22 Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-26 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-27 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-27 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-04 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-04 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB204ER) passage
• 2024-03-04 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-05 Impact statement from DPB (SB204ER)
• 2024-03-07 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 580 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0580)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/db2fcdb6-0e3c-4125-82d8-d5bd5ed20b28. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).