HB 5090 Virginia House of Delegates · 2020, 1st Special Session

Virginia Freedom of Information Act; law-enforcement criminal incident information, etc.

Summary
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; law-enforcement criminal incident information; criminal investigative files. Adds criminal investigative files, defined in the bill, to the types of law-enforcement and criminal records required to be released in accordance with the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Under current law, the release of criminal investigative files is discretionary. The bill also allows a law-enforcement agency or attorney for the Commonwealth to petition a court of record for permission not to release criminal incident information that would otherwise be subject to release, if the release of such information is likely to jeopardize an ongoing investigation or cause certain other harms.
Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Aug 2020
Committee Review
Sep 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Sep 2020
Senate Passage
Sep 2020
Governor
Introduced Aug 19, 2020 Last action Sep 18, 2020
Floor votes · House of Delegates Sep 10, 2020

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate. No roll call record of that vote is available.
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
27
Key actions
7
Committee
9
Sep 18, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (14-Y 0-N)
upper
Sep 15, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
upper
Sep 10, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (59-Y 37-N)
lower
Sep 9, 2020
Lower · Passed
Courts of Justice Committee amendments ruled out of order
lower
Sep 4, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Appropriations (13-Y 9-N)
lower
Sep 3, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
lower
Sep 3, 2020
Lower · Passed
Motion to refer to committee agreed to
lower
Aug 26, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (14-Y 7-N)
lower
Aug 24, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Aug 24, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from General Laws with substitute (16-Y 6-N)
lower
Aug 19, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws
lower
Aug 19, 2020
Introduced
Presented and ordered printed 20200705D
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

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