Consumer Protection
Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; minutes of closed meetings required, audio recordings. [HB-2401]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; minutes of closed meetings required; audio recordings. Provides that a public body shall (i) take closed meeting minutes, (ii) also make an audio recording of the entirety of every meeting that is closed to the public, and (iii) use a means of recording that fully captures and can clearly reproduce all statements made during a closed meeting. The bill provides that the minutes or recordings made shall not be subject to the disclosure provisions of FOIA.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to premium increase for a collision in which the insured is not at fault under a personal automobile insurance policy. [HB-2145]
Relating to premium increase for a collision in which the insured is not at fault under a personal automobile insurance policy.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the regulation of motor fuel quality and motor fuel metering devices; authorizing fees. [HB-2174]
Relating to the regulation of motor fuel quality and motor fuel metering devices; authorizing fees.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to denial or reduction of certain claims under a residential property insurance policy. [HB-2146]
Relating to denial or reduction of certain claims under a residential property insurance policy.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to water damage claims under a residential property insurance policy. [HB-2148]
Relating to water damage claims under a residential property insurance policy.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the enforcement of certain warranties for a new motor vehicle. [HB-2070]
Relating to the enforcement of certain warranties for a new motor vehicle.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the repeal of certain laws regulating the sale or transfer of secondhand watches. [HB-2027]
Relating to the repeal of certain laws regulating the sale or transfer of secondhand watches.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to certain rental-purchase agreements. [SB-938]
Relating to certain rental-purchase agreements.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to fees charged by a consumer reporting agency for the placement, temporary lifting, or removal of a security freeze on the consumer file or record of certain consumers or protected consumers. [HB-2001]
Relating to fees charged by a consumer reporting agency for the placement, temporary lifting, or removal of a security freeze on the consumer file or record of certain consumers or protected consumers.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; expands definition of public body. [SB-1436]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); definition of public body. Expands the definition of public body under FOIA to include any foundation that exists for the primary purpose of supporting a public institution of higher education and that is exempt from taxation under ? 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to deferred presentment transactions made to military borrowers. [HB-2008]
Relating to deferred presentment transactions made to military borrowers.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Towing; regulations. [SB-1340]
Regulation of towing. Includes as violations of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act prohibited acts by tow truck drivers and towing and recovery operators, violations of police towing, and violations of local ordinances regulating police towing, price, and trespass towing.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
FOIA; trade secrets submitted to the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. [SB-1292]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); trade secrets submitted to the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of FOIA trade secrets, as defined in the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (? 59.1-336 et seq.), submitted to the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy that identify chemical ingredient names, the chemical abstracts number for a chemical ingredient, or the amount or concentration of chemicals or ingredients used to stimulate a well pursuant to ? 45.1-361.29 or Department regulations concerning
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to certain rental-purchase agreements. [HB-1859]
Relating to certain rental-purchase agreements.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Well permit applications; disclosure of trade secrets. [SB-1291]
Well permit applications; disclosure of trade secrets. Authorizes the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (the Department) to require disclosure of chemical ingredient names, chemical abstracts numbers, or the amount or concentration of chemicals or ingredients used to stimulate a well notwithstanding exclusion from mandatory disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act as a trade secret. The bill authorizes the Director of the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy to disclose such information to additional Department staff or
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the provision of accounting statements by mortgage servicers for certain loans secured by a lien on residential real property. [SB-830]
Relating to the provision of accounting statements by mortgage servicers for certain loans secured by a lien on residential real property.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the maximum permitted sum of fees, interest, and other amounts due under certain extensions of consumer credit. [HB-1733]
Relating to the maximum permitted sum of fees, interest, and other amounts due under certain extensions of consumer credit.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; proprietary records and trade secrets. [SB-1226]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; record exclusion for proprietary records and trade secrets; solar energy agreements. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of FOIA proprietary information, voluntarily provided by a private business under a promise of confidentiality from a public body, used by the public body for a solar services agreement. The bill requires the private business to specify the records for which protection is sought before submitting them to the public body and to state the reasons why protection is necessary. The
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council; online public comment form. [HB-2146]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); Freedom of Information Advisory Council; online public comment form. Requires the Freedom of Information Advisory Council to develop an online public comment form to be posted on its official public government website to enable any requester to comment on the quality of assistance provided to the requester by a public body. The bill also requires all state public bodies subject to the provisions of FOIA and any county or city, and any town with a population of more than 250, to post a link on its official
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; right to speak at open meetings. [HB-2223]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; right to speak at open meetings. Requires that every public body afford an opportunity for public comment during any open meeting and requires that the public comment periods be noticed on the public body's agenda. The bill permits the public body to have discretion in where it places the public comment period on its agenda and permits the public body to adopt reasonable rules governing the public comment portion of the meeting, including imposing reasonable restrictions on time, place, and manner. The bill requires
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