Freedom Of Information
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Elections administration; requests made pursuant to the FOIA, deferment of response. [HB-15]
Elections administration; requests made pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act; deferment of response when request received during certain period of time. Allows local electoral boards and general registrars to defer providing a response to a request received under the Freedom of Information Act on or after the first day of in-person absentee voting for any election and before the tenth day following the local electoral board's certification of such election. The bill requires that notice of the deferment be provided to the requestor.
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Answer COVID FOIAs Now Act [HB-6321]
To require the head of each Federal agency, within 100 calendar days, to complete all pending Freedom of Information Act requests related to a drug or medical device to prevent, diagnose, mitigate, or treat COVID-19, gain-of-function or potential pandemic pathogen research, or a policy, rule, or standard requiring COVID-19 vaccination of individuals, and for other purposes.
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; Virginia Parole Board member votes. [SB-5]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; Virginia Parole Board member votes. Provides that individual votes of the members of the Virginia Parole Board are public records and subject to the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
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Wounded Warrior Access Act [HB-5916]
To amend title 38, United States Code, to allow for the electronic request of certain records, and for other purposes.
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NASA Enhanced Use Leasing Extension Act of 2021 [HB-5746]
To amend title 51, United States Code, to extend the authority of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to enter into leases of non-excess property of the Administration.
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Countering Communist China Act [HB-4792]
To counter the malign influence and theft perpetuated by the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party.
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Federal Employee Disclosure (FED) Transparency Act [HB-3768]
To require the disclosure of pension records under the Freedom of Information Act, and for other purposes.
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Establishing the Joint Select Committee on the Events and Activities Surrounding China's Handling of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus. [HCR-36]
Establishing the Joint Select Committee on the Events and Activities Surrounding China's Handling of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus.
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Requirements, Expectations, and Standard Procedures for Effective Consultation with Tribes Act RESPECT Act [HB-3587]
To prescribe procedures for effective consultation and coordination by Federal agencies with federally recognized Tribal Governments regarding Federal Government actions that impact Tribal lands and interests to ensure that meaningful Tribal input is an integral part of the Federal decision-making process.
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Sunshine in Product Safety Act [S.1355]
A bill to amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to strike provisions that limit the disclosure of certain information by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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Sunshine in Product Safety Act of 2021 [HB-2813]
To amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to strike provisions that limit the disclosure of certain information by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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VA FOIA Reform Act of 2021 [HB-2726]
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a plan to reduce the backlog of requests for information made to the Department of Veterans Affairs pursuant to section 552 of title 5, United States Code, and for other purposes.
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Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act [S.1276]
A bill to designate certain National Forest System land and certain public land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior in the States of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming as wilderness, wild and scenic rivers, wildland recovery areas, and biological connecting corridors, and for other purposes.
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Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act [HB-2282]
To repeal certain impediments to the administration of the firearms laws.
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Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act [S.974]
A bill to repeal certain impediments to the administration of firearms laws.
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Transparency in Classification Act of 2021 [S.932]
A bill to establish the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel, to provide agency and higher level reviews of classification decisions, to provide expedited review of classification decisions for members of Congress, and to provide protections for those challenging classification decisions, and for other purposes.
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See UNdisclosed Legal Interpretations and Get Honest Transparency Act of 2021 Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act Lobbyist Disclosure Enhancement Act SUNLIGHT Act of 2021 [HB-2055]
To amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, the Rules of the House of Representatives, the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, the Financial Stability Act of 2010, and the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to improve access to information in the legislative and executive branches of the Government, and for other purposes.
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Open and Responsive Government Act of 2021 [S.742]
A bill to modify the exemption for trade secrets and commercial or financial information in the Freedom of Information Act, and for other purposes.
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Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act [HB-1755]
To designate certain National Forest System lands and certain public lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior in the States of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming as wilderness, wild and scenic rivers, wildland recovery areas, and biological connecting corridors, and for other purposes.
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Virginia Freedom of Information Act; proprietary records and trade secrets. [SB-1343]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; proprietary records and trade secrets; carbon sequestration agreements. Excludes from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act proprietary information, voluntarily provided by a private business under a promise of confidentiality from a public body, used by the public body for a carbon sequestration 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
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