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type: "Bill"
title: "FOIA; exclusion of certain information held by Department of Workforce Development and Advancement."
description: "Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions; Department of Workforce Development and Advancement. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure requirements of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act certain information held by the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement, which includes any information of a proprietary or confidential nature, including trade secrets, employee compensation information, balance sheets and financial statements that are not available to the public through regulatory disclosure or otherwise, and revenue and cost projections supplied by a private or nongovernmental entity to the Department for the purpose of sponsoring, implementing, and operating (i) an apprenticeship program approved by the Department or (ii) a similar lawful workforce development or public-private partnership approved by the Department that assists the Department in fulfilling its mission and objectives and whose workforce development initiative could not advance without such exemption, as determined by the Commissioner of the Department and the Secretary of Labor. This bill is identical to SB 1107."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2502"
citation: "Virginia HB 2502 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Wiley"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 36
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2fc50ae4-dc66-464d-a560-a04fa9e53599"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2502"
source_hash: "9afee32506a7b1d11c8b6879e4f6471a9982f1930ab9072d3918a034cc4e7adb"
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 HB 2502 (2025) — FOIA; exclusion of certain information held by Department of Workforce Development and Advancement.
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions; Department of Workforce Development and Advancement. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure requirements of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act certain information held by the Department of Workforce Development and Advancement, which includes any information of a proprietary or confidential nature, including trade secrets, employee compensation information, balance sheets and financial statements that are not available to the public through regulatory disclosure or otherwise, and revenue and cost projections supplied by a private or nongovernmental entity to the Department for the purpose of sponsoring, implementing, and operating (i) an apprenticeship program approved by the Department or (ii) a similar lawful workforce development or public-private partnership approved by the Department that assists the Department in fulfilling its mission and objectives and whose workforce development initiative could not advance without such exemption, as determined by the Commissioner of the Department and the Secretary of Labor. This bill is identical to SB 1107.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1016563.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071210.PDF)
3. **General Laws Subcommittee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1032326.PDF)
4. **General Laws Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1036400.PDF)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1061387.PDF)
## Votes
- Reported from General Laws with substitute (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N) — **360** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (30-Y 7-N) — **307** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (24-Y 13-N) — **2413** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **391** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (9-Y 6-N) — **96** (pass) · upper
- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bill Wiley — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104123D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2502)
- **2025-01-27** Assigned GL sub: Procurement/Open Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2025-01-30** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2502)
- **2025-01-30** Reported from General Laws with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30** Committee substitute printed 25105282D-H1 `substitution`
- **2025-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03** General Laws Substitute agreed to
- **2025-02-03** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2025-02-04** Passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2502)
- **2025-02-12** Reported from General Laws and Technology (9-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-14** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-14** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-17** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-18** Passed Senate (24-Y 13-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-18** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-18** Passed Senate (30-Y 7-N) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2502ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2502)
- **2025-03-07** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 90 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-19** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0090)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2fc50ae4-dc66-464d-a560-a04fa9e53599`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).