Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
SB 1029: FOIA; procedure for responding to requests, charges, posting of notice of rights & responsibilities.
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- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
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Plain-language summary
SB 1029 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on January 7, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: FOIA; procedure for responding to requests, charges, posting of notice of rights & responsibilities. Primary sponsor: Danica Roem (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (February 19, 2025): Left in General Laws.
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; procedure for responding to requests; charges; posting of notice of rights and responsibilities. Limits the fees charged for producing public records to the median hourly rate of pay of employees of the public body or the actual hourly rate of pay of the person performing the work, whichever is less, and provides that a public body may petition a court for relief from this fee limit if there is no one who can process the request at the median hourly rate of pay or less. The bill makes corresponding amendments to the required statement on charges in the notice of rights and responsibilities that must be posted on a public body's website. The bill also amends existing law providing that a public body may petition a court for additional time to respond to a request for public records to allow such petitions to be heard in either general district or circuit court, to give such petitions priority on the court's docket, and to toll the response time while such a petition is pending before a court. The bill makes technical amendments, including moving provisions regarding charges for the production of public records into a separate section of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Danica Roem | Primary sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 30 |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Left in General Laws
- Rereferred to General Laws
- Motion to rerefer to General Laws agreed to
- Passed by for the day
- Read second time
- Reported from General Laws (16-Y 3-N)
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
- Assigned GL sub: Procurement/Open Government
- Referred to Committee on General Laws
- Read first time
- Placed on Calendar
- Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1029)
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