Computer Services And Uses
Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Identity theft; notice of database breach. [HB-1469]
Database breach notification. Requires an individual or entity that owns or licenses computerized data that includes personal information to disclose any breach of the security of the system following discovery or notification of the breach to the Office of the Attorney General and any affected resident of the Commonwealth whose unencrypted and unredacted personal information was, or is reasonably believed to have been accessed and acquired by an unauthorized person. A breach is defined as the unauthorized access and acquisition of unencrypted
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0801) on 04/14/2008
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Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include certain computer equipment. [HB-1388]
Retail sales and use tax; exemption for certain computer equipment. Creates an exemption from the retail sales and use tax for computer equipment used in data centers that (i) are located in a Virginia locality having an unemployment rate above 4.9 percent for the calendar quarter ending November 2007 and (ii) that meet certain investment and job creation criteria. The investment in the computer equipment would be made in accordance with a memorandum of understanding entered into or amended between January 1, 2008, and December 31, 2008.
Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Wright Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0558) on 03/17/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Planning and Budget, Director of Department; required to have searchable budget database website. [HB-1360]
Searchable budget database website. Requires the Director of the Department of Planning and Budget to maintain a searchable budget database website that would allow persons to search and aggregate information for individual or specific appropriations or budget items. The Director would be required to have the database operational by July 1, 2009. When fully operational, all data in the database would be maintained for a minimum of 10 years. The bill would require to the Director to work with the Auditor of Public Accounts and the Joint Legislative
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Sponsored by: Rep. Benjamin Cline House: Continued To 2009 In Appropriations By Voice Vote on 01/30/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Payday Loan Act; requires SCC to contract with one or more parties to develop, etc. database. [HB-1351]
Payday Loan Act. Requires the State Corporation Commission, by July 1, 2009, to certify and contract with one or more third parties to develop, implement, and maintain an Internet-accessible database, and requires payday lenders to query the database prior to making any loan to determine whether an applicant is eligible for the loan. A payday lender is prohibited from making a payday loan if the loan would cause the borrower to have more than two payday loans outstanding at the same time. Payday lenders are prohibited from knowingly making loans
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron House: Left In Commerce And Labor on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Payday Loan Act; requires SCC to contract with one or more parties to develop, etc. database. [HB-12]
Payday Loan Act. Requires the State Corporation Commission, by January 1, 2009, to certify and contract with one or more third parties to develop, implement, and maintain an Internet-accessible database, and requires payday lenders to query the database prior to making any loan to determine whether the loan is permissible. Licensees are required to pay a database inquiry fee to the database provider. A payday lender is prohibited from making a payday loan to a person if the loan would cause the borrower to have more than one payday loan outstanding
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0849) on 04/23/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Alicia's Law; funding for child exploitation law enforcement efforts. [HB-1189]
Appropriations; funding for anti-child-exploitation law enforcement. Provides both one-time and ongoing appropriations to fund anti-child-exploitation law-enforcement efforts in the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. Beverly Sherwood House: Left In Appropriations on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Circuit court clerks; clarifies issues regarding electronic filing & recording of land records, etc. [HB-1106]
Circuit Court clerks; electronic filing and recording; digital reproduction; recordation of judgments; secure remote access; deed cover sheets; fees collected by clerks. Clarifies a number of issues for circuit court clerks including (i) the use of the last four digits of a social security number on judgments (filer is responsible); (ii) that the clerk may provide information from a locality to remote access users; (iii) that the filer is responsible for cover sheet accuracy; (iv) allowing the clerk to rely on the cover sheet to index; and (v)
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Sponsored by: Rep. Terry Kilgore Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0823) on 04/14/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Payday Loan Act; requires SCC to contract with one or more parties to develop, etc. database. [HB-1103]
Payday Loan Act. Requires the State Corporation Commission, by January 1, 2009, to contract with a third party to develop, implement, and maintain an Internet-accessible database, and requires payday lenders to query the database prior to making any loan to determine whether an applicant is ineligible for the loan. The measure also (i) caps the maximum amount of a payday loan at the lesser of 25% of the borrower's gross monthly income or $1,000, or $500 if it is a second payday loan; (ii) requires the lender to keep records of the pay stubs used
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Sickles House: Left In Commerce And Labor on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Standards of Quality; online instructional programs. [HB-1094]
Standards of Quality; instructional programs. Requires local school boards to provide an opportunity for every high school student to integrate approved online lessons or instruction or an online experience into required courses.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Sickles House: Left In Education on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Identity theft; notice of database breach. [HB-1052]
Database breach notification. Requires that an individual or a commercial entity that conducts business in Virginia and that owns or licenses data that includes personal information about a resident of Virginia shall, when it becomes aware of a breach of the security of the system, (i) conduct in good faith a reasonable and prompt investigation to determine the likelihood that personal information has been or will be misused and (ii) notify the Office of the Attorney General that a breach has occurred. A breach of the security of the system is defined
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kenneth Plum House: Incorporated By Science And Technology (hb1469-byron) By Voice Vote on 02/04/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Telecommuting; state contractors to offer to employees. [HB-1030]
Procurement contracts; state contractors to offer telecommuting to employees. Requires the contractor to make every effort to offer telecommuting or alternative work schedules to its employees, based on the state telecommuting and alternative work schedule guidelines, except where there is a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the contractor.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jeffrey Frederick House: Left In General Laws on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Telecommuting; establishes goal for state agencies. [HB-1021]
State employee telecommuting goal. Establishes a goal for state agencies, except for the Department of State Police, to have 20 percent of their eligible workforce telecommuting by January 1, 2010.
Sponsored by: Rep. Timothy Hugo Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0375) on 03/11/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings of interim study committees. [HB-1020]
Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings; interim study committees. Permits interim study committees of the General Assembly to conduct meetings using electronic communications without meeting physical presence requirements for a quorum. Members participating in such meetings through electronic communications shall count towards quorum requirements and have full voting rights.
Sponsored by: Rep. Timothy Hugo House: Left In General Laws on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Telecommuting; definition. [HB-1018]
Definition of telecommuting. Defines telecommuting as a work arrangement in which supervisors direct or permit employees to perform their usual job duties away from their central workplace at least one day per week and in accordance with work agreements.
Sponsored by: Rep. Timothy Hugo Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0374) on 03/11/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Telecommuting; state agencies to keep savings. [HB-1019]
Telecommuting; state agencies to keep savings. Authorizes state agencies to retain the unappropriated balance in the general appropriation act realized as a direct result of implementing a telecommuting program within the agency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Timothy Hugo House: Left In General Laws on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Nursing workforce information; publication on website. [HB-1003]
Nursing workforce information; publication on website. Requires that data related to the Commonwealth's nursing workforce, which is currently collected by the Board of Nursing, shall be published, in aggregate form and in a format that is accessible to the public, on the Department of Health Professions website.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Bell Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0373) on 03/11/2008
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Auditor of Public Accounts; online database, register of funds expended. [HB-2436]
Auditor of Public Accounts; online database; register of funds expended. Requires the Commonwealth Data Point website administered by the Auditor of Public Accounts to include information for major categories of spending for each state agency and institution, including each independent agency. Currently, the Commonwealth Data Point website includes such information for only secretariats and major state agencies. In addition, the bill provides that the database shall include the name, phone number, and email address for a contact at each agency or
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Sponsored by: Rep. Glenn Davis
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0679) on 03/20/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Malicious impersonation by computer; penalty. [SB-1480]
Digital impersonation; penalty. Provides that it is a Class 1 misdemeanor for a person to knowingly and with malice impersonate a living individual without his authorization through the use of a computer and with the intent to defraud or injure that person in his reputation, trade, business, or profession. The bill provides that an impersonation is credible if a reasonable person would believe the defendant was in fact the person who was impersonated.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Edwards
Failed To Report (defeated) In Courts Of Justice (5-y 8-n 2-a) on 02/01/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Ticket Resale Rights Act; limitations on reselling tickets on Internet ticketing platform, penalty. [SB-1425]
Rights to resell tickets; civil penalty. Prohibits any person that issues tickets for admission to a professional concert, professional sporting event, or professional theatrical production, open to the public for which tickets are ordinarily sold, from issuing the ticket solely through a delivery method that substantially prevents the ticket purchaser from lawfully reselling the ticket on the Internet ticketing platform of the ticket purchaser's choice. The measure also prohibits a person from being discriminated against or denied admission to
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Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Black
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0268) on 03/03/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Auditor of Public Accounts; register of funds expended, etc. [SB-1307]
Auditor of Public Accounts; online database; register of funds expended. Requires the Commonwealth Data Point website administered by the Auditor of Public Accounts to include information for major categories of spending for each state agency and institution, including each independent agency. Currently, the Commonwealth Data Point website includes such information for only secretariats and major state agencies. In addition, the bill provides that the database shall include the name, phone number, and email address for a contact at each agency or
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jill Vogel
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0681) on 03/20/2017