republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-340.md

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Bill	Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions from mandatory disclosure, purchase card statement.	Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusionsfrom mandatory disclosure; purchase card statement. Clarifiesthat the name of a public employee, officer, or official as it appearson a purchase card statement or other payment record and the descriptionof individual purchases are not exempt from disclosure by the StateComptroller.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 340	Virginia SB 340 (2024)	bill		enacted	Saddam Azlan Salim	3	29	8	2024-01-09	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/8e7d3929-a196-412c-a563-1c84550dfd4e	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB340	430c7c840b118895a744365b939adbc48100c04d84a2285f471570c070cefaea	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 340 (2024) — Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions from mandatory disclosure, purchase card statement.

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusionsfrom mandatory disclosure; purchase card statement. Clarifiesthat the name of a public employee, officer, or official as it appearson a purchase card statement or other payment record and the descriptionof individual purchases are not exempt from disclosure by the StateComptroller.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0671 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102889D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB340ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 5-N) — 9–5 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Saddam Azlan Salim — primary (person)
• Scott A. Surovell — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102889D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Impact statement from DPB (SB340)
• 2024-02-07 Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-07 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-12 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-13 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-13 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-13 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-16 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-16 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-16 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2024-02-19 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 (SB340ER) passage
• 2024-03-04 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-05 Impact statement from DPB (SB340ER)
• 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
• 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 671 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0671)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8e7d3929-a196-412c-a563-1c84550dfd4e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).