Computer Services And Uses
Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Food stamp program; requests for replacement of electronic benefit transfer card. [HB-2207]
Food stamp program; excessive requests for replacement of electronic benefit transfer card. Requires the Department of Social Services (the Department) to monitor all requests for replacement of electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards issued to food stamp program recipients. The bill provides that a request for replacement of an EBT card shall be deemed excessive if a food stamp program recipient or a member of his household has made four such requests within 12 months prior to the request. The bill requires the Department, upon receipt of a fourth
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Sponsored by: Rep. Roxann Robinson
(67 Affirmative Votes Required To Override) on 04/05/2017
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Consumer finance companies; Internet loans, report. [SB-1126]
Consumer finance companies; Internet loans. Provides that the laws regulating consumer finance companies apply to persons making loans to individuals for personal, family, household, or other nonbusiness purposes over the Internet to Virginia residents or any individuals in Virginia, whether or not the person making the loans maintains a physical presence in the Commonwealth. The measure has a reenactment clause and directs the Bureau of Financial Institutions to conduct an analysis of the legal, administrative, and other relevant issues relating
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Sponsored by: Sen. Scott Surovell
Tabled In Commerce And Labor By Voice Vote on 02/16/2017
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General Services, Department of; central electronic procurement website. [HB-2081]
Department of General Services; central electronic procurement website. Directs the Department of General Services, in an effort to facilitate prompt payment by contractors to subcontractors, to post on its central electronic procurement website certain information pertaining to payments made by public bodies to contractors.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Webert
Left In General Laws on 02/08/2017
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State Corporation Commission; charges for copies. [HB-2111]
State Corporation Commission; charges for copies. Clarifies that the State Corporation Commission (Commission) may absorb some or all of the convenience fees paid by users of a Commission online filing system. The measure also grants the Commission the discretion not to charge a fee for providing certain copies.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Keam
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0486) on 03/13/2017
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Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission; Commonwealth's cybersecurity standards. [HJR-692]
Study; JLARC; Commonwealth's cybersecurity standards; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to (i) evaluate the Commonwealth's current policies, procedures, and standards for assessing cybersecurity risks and protecting the electronic information of all branches of state government from unauthorized uses, intrusions, and other security threats and (ii) make recommendations for the improvement of such policies, procedures, and standards, including a recommendation, within 180 days of commencing the study, as to whether
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Tabled In Rules By Voice Vote on 01/26/2017
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Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; regional transportation plan. [HB-2137]
Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; regional transportation plan. Requires the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (the Authority) to annually publish on its website any land use or transportation elements of a locality's comprehensive plan that each locality embraced by the Authority is currently required to report when such locality's plan is inconsistent with the Authority's regional transportation plan. Additionally, the bill requires the Authority to consider for revision and revise as necessary its regional transportation plan
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Sponsored by: Rep. James LeMunyon
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0351) on 03/13/2017
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Voter registration at the Department of Motor Vehicles; opt-out voter registration. [HB-2088]
Voter registration at the Department of Motor Vehicles; Voter registration at the Department of Motor Vehicles; opt-out voter registration. Provides for the electronic transmission by the Department of Motor Vehicles to the Department of Elections of certain information for any person coming into an office of the Department of Motor Vehicles or accessing its website in order to (i) apply for, replace, or renew a driver's license, (ii) apply for, replace, or renew a special identification card, or (iii) change an address on an existing driver's license
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Sponsored by: Rep. Charniele Herring
Left In Privileges And Elections on 02/08/2017
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Study; Secretary of Technology; interfacing of electronic medical records and information; report. [HJR-709]
Study; Secretary of Technology; interfacing of electronic medical records and information; report. Requests the Secretary of Technology to (i) study the development of an effective and efficient system that interfaces electronic medical records and information throughout the Commonwealth; (ii) identify strategies to implement such health care interface and the costs associated therewith; (iii) assess various testing strategies for the interface; (iv) recommend security and data standards for the interface; and (v) develop a systematic approach to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Poindexter
Tabled In Rules By Voice Vote on 01/26/2017
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Electronic filing of land records; fee for paper filing. [HB-2035]
Electronic filing of land records; fee for paper filing. Provides that a clerk of a circuit court that has established an electronic filing system for land records may charge a fee not to exceed $5 per instrument for every land record filed by paper. This bill is identical to SB 870.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jackson Miller
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0289) on 03/03/2017
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Virginia Lottery; regulations of sale of lottery tickets over Internet. [HB-2010]
Virginia Lottery; repeal prohibition against sale of lottery tickets over Internet. Repeals the prohibition against the sale of lottery tickets over the Internet.
Sponsored by: Rep. Roxann Robinson
Left In General Laws on 02/08/2017
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Computer trespass; penalty. [HB-1986]
Computer trespass; penalty. Expands the crime of computer trespass to provide that the prohibited actions that constitute computer trespass are criminalized if done through intentionally deceptive means and without authority and specifies that monitoring and interaction involving a subscriber's Internet or other network connection or service is not considered computer trespass unless such monitoring or interaction is done through intentionally deceptive means without authorization or with malicious intent.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Bell
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/07/2017
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Acute psychiatric patient registry; DBHDS to develop and administer. [HB-1918]
Acute psychiatric patient registry. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to develop and administer a web-based acute psychiatric patient registry to collect, aggregate, and display de-identified information about individuals who meet the criteria for temporary detention to facilitate the timely identification of a facility for temporary detention and treatment of the individual. The bill requires each community services board and behavioral health authority in the Commonwealth to update information contained in
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Sponsored by: Rep. Roxann Robinson
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/07/2017
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Supreme Court of Virginia; Executive Secretary to maintain case information system. [HB-1844]
Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court; case information system. Requires the Executive Secretary to maintain a free online statewide name-searchable case information system of all criminal cases in the circuit courts, general district courts, and adult criminal cases in the juvenile and domestic relations district courts of the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terry Kilgore
Left In Appropriations on 02/08/2017
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Motor vehicle liability insurance; proof in electronic form. [HB-1827]
Proof of motor vehicle liability insurance in electronic form. Provides that when proof of a policy of motor vehicle liability insurance is required by Title 46.2 (Motor Vehicles), such proof may be furnished in electronic form.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Yost
Left In Transportation on 02/07/2017
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Ticket Resale Rights Act; limitations on reselling tickets on Internet ticketing platform, penalty. [HB-1825]
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: Rep. Kathy Byron
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0261) on 03/03/2017
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Computer trespass; government computers and computers used for public utilities, penalty. [HB-1815]
Computer trespass; government computers and computers used for public utilities; penalty. Increases the Class 1 misdemeanor computer trespass crimes to a Class 6 felony if the computer affected is one that is exclusively for the use of, or used by or for, the Commonwealth, a local government within the Commonwealth, or certain public utilities.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Yancey
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0562) on 03/16/2017
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Computer crimes; penalties. [HB-1809]
RICO; computer crimes; penalties. Adds certain felony offenses contained in the Virginia Computer Crimes Act as qualifying offenses under the Virginia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act. Such crimes include computer fraud, transmission of unsolicited commercial electronic mail, computer trespass, computer invasion of privacy, using a computer to gather identifying information, and theft of computer services.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Bell
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/07/2017
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Retail Sales and Use Tax; online access to certain information. [HB-1810]
Sales and use tax; online access to certain information. Requires the Department of Taxation to provide online access by registered dealers to the names and certificate of registration numbers of dealers who are currently registered for the retail sales and use tax.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barry Knight
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0049) on 02/20/2017
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Voter registration at the Department of Motor Vehicles; opt-out voter registration. [SB-1051]
Voter registration at the Department of Motor Vehicles; Voter registration at the Department of Motor Vehicles; opt-out voter registration. Provides for the electronic transmission by the Department of Motor Vehicles to the Department of Elections of certain information for any person coming into an office of the Department of Motor Vehicles or accessing its website in order to (i) apply for, replace, or renew a driver's license, (ii) apply for, replace, or renew a special identification card, or (iii) change an address on an existing driver's license
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Stricken At Request Of Patron In Privileges And Elections (13-y 0-n) on 01/31/2017
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Computer trespass; computer invasion of privacy, penalty, civil relief. [SB-1090]
Computer trespass; computer invasion of privacy; penalty; civil relief. Makes it a Class 5 felony for a person to maliciously install or cause to be installed a computer program that takes control of or restricts access to another computer or computer network, or data therein, and demand money or anything else of value to remove the computer program; restore control of or access to the computer or computer network, or data therein; or remediate the impact of the computer program. The bill adds medical information to the list of information that
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Sponsored by: Sen. Glen Sturtevant
Passed By Indefinitely In Finance (16-y 0-n) on 01/31/2017