Administration of government; state publications to be made available in electronic format.
Summary
Administration of government; general provisions; state publications to be made available in electronic format. Requires state publications provided to (i) the General Assembly or any committee, subcommittee, commission, agency, or other body within the legislative branch or (ii) the chairman or agency head of such entity and publications of any agency, institution, collegial body, or other governmental entity to be made available as read-only and text-searchable Portable Document Format (.pdf) files or some other widely used and accessible read-only and text-searchable electronic document format. All requests for such reports or publications shall be made electronically unless expressly requested otherwise.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Jan 6, 2020
Signed Mar 23, 2020
Floor votes
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
7
Amendments
1
Mar 23, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 421 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Feb 24, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 19, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 3, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
upper
Jan 31, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N)
lower
Jan 30, 2020
Introduced
Engrossed by House as amended HB719E
lower
Jan 30, 2020
Lower · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
lower
Jan 27, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation with amendments (20-Y 2-N)
lower
Jan 20, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (9-Y 1-N)
lower
Jan 16, 2020
Committee
Assigned CT & I sub: Communications
lower
Jan 6, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation
lower
Jan 6, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101019D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
David Reid
DDemocratic
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