republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-321.md

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Bill	Administrative and civil proceedings; protected information, newspersons engaged in journalism.	Protected information in administrative and civil proceedings; newspersons engaged in journalism. Expands the protected information privilege for newspersons to administrative and civil proceedings. Under current law, a newsperson engaged in journalism shall not be compelled by the Commonwealth or a locality to testify about, disclose, or produce protected information, with certain exceptions, in criminal proceedings only.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 321	Virginia SB 321 (2024)	bill		enacted	Danica A. Roem	3	29	7	2024-01-09	2024-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/aad77c5f-b9cb-429e-8842-7509156b53ef	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB321	dc02c6abf5ee2ee716c92b9aa6bbf42cef3361232589c387814273349dc59cdd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 321 (2024) — Administrative and civil proceedings; protected information, newspersons engaged in journalism.

Protected information in administrative and civil proceedings; newspersons engaged in journalism. Expands the protected information privilege for newspersons to administrative and civil proceedings. Under current law, a newsperson engaged in journalism shall not be compelled by the Commonwealth or a locality to testify about, disclose, or produce protected information, with certain exceptions, in criminal proceedings only.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0589 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100946D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB321ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N) — 10–5 (pass) · upper
• House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (71-Y 28-N) — 70–28 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (11-Y 10-N) — 11–10 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N) — 5–3 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Danica A. Roem — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100946D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-01-10 Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
• 2024-02-07 Reported from Courts of Justice (10-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-09 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-12 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-15 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-15 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-15 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Assigned Courts sub: Civil referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N)
• 2024-02-23 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (11-Y 10-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Committee amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2024-02-28 Passed by temporarily
• 2024-02-28 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2024-02-28 Passed House with amendments (71-Y 28-N) passage
• 2024-02-28 VOTE: Passage (71-Y 28-N) passage
• 2024-03-01 House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) amendment-passage
• 2024-03-06 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-06 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB321ER) passage
• 2024-03-06 Signed by Speaker passage
• 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 589 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0589)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aad77c5f-b9cb-429e-8842-7509156b53ef. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).