Electronic Processes
Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Candidates for office; electronic filing of forms, petitions, and notifications. [HB-440]
Elections; candidates for office; electronic filing of forms, petitions, and notifications with Department of Elections. Requires the Department of Elections to develop and implement an online filing system to accept any form, petition, or notification filed by electronic means by a party official or candidate. The bill requires the State Board of Elections to develop standards for the electronic preparation, production, submission, and transmittal of all forms required of party officials and candidates. The bill also requires the State Board to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joshua Cole
Left In Privileges And Elections on 11/18/2024
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Discovery; electronic means. [HB-1515]
Discovery; electronic means; report. Requires all attorneys for the Commonwealth to provide discovery materials for all courts to counsel of record for the accused by electronic means unless such material is prohibited from being distributed by law or impossible to provide by electronic means. The bill directs the Supreme Court of Virginia to promulgate rules to implement this provision by July 1, 2026. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027. Discovery; electronic means; report. Requires all attorneys for the Commonwealth to provide
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jackie Glass
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Electronic sales by dealers; titling. [HB-1419]
Electronic sales by dealers; titling. Authorizes certain motor vehicle dealers to choose to sell a motor vehicle electronically by obtaining a title in the dealer's name for resale. This bill has a contingent effective date of the earlier of (i) July 1, 2025, or (ii) receipt of proper notification that a secure power of attorney prescribed by federal law and in a form approved by the Department of Motor Vehicles is available to motor vehicle dealers to be electronically signed by a purchaser. Electronic sales by dealers; titling. Authorizes certain
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Sponsored by: Rep. Terry Kilgore
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0418) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Absentee voting; electronic ballot return. [HB-796]
Elections; absentee voting; electronic ballot return. Elections; absentee voting; electronic ballot return. Requires that the Department of Elections establish an electronic transmission system through which a military or overseas voter or voter with a disability may request, receive, and return a ballot. The bill also requires a general registrar to offer an applicant for an absentee ballot who indicates that he will require assistance to vote the option to have a blank absentee ballot, the form for the envelope for returning the marked ballot,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Hope
Tabled In Privileges And Elections (21-y 1-n) on 02/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Candidates for office; collection of signatures by electronic means. [HB-750]
Candidates for office; electronic petitions. Allows for the collection of signatures by electronic means, requires the State Board of Elections to prescribe candidate petitions forms in both paper and electronic formats, and provides formal requirements for signatures on electronic petitions. The bill also makes technical amendments to provide uniformity in requirements for such petitions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Wendell Walker
Left In Privileges And Elections on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
VA Self-Service Storage Act; rental agreement may be delivered and accepted electronically. [SB-355]
Virginia Self-Service Storage Act. Permits a rental agreement for a leased self-service storage space to be delivered and accepted electronically. The bill permits a rental agreement to contain statements that the rental agreement is deemed accepted by the owner where the owner accepts rent or where the occupant accepts possession or delivers rent. Finally, the bill permits towing of any abandoned, immobilized, unattended, or trespassing vehicles or watercraft that are not authorized to be at the self-service storage facility. Virginia Self-Service
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Sponsored by: Sen. Aaron Rouse
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0673) on 04/08/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Discovery; electronic means. [HB-851]
Discovery; electronic means. Requires all attorneys for the Commonwealth to provide discovery materials for all courts to counsel of record for the accused by electronic means unless such material is prohibited from being distributed by law. The bill directs the Supreme Court of Virginia to promulgate rules to implement this provision by January 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Davis
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
FOIA; meetings held through electronic communication during declared states of emergency. [HB-816]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; effective date of procedures for conducting meetings held through electronic communication means during declared states of emergency. Provides that the provisions for conducting a meeting by electronic means due to a state of emergency stated in the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) are declarative of existing law since March 20, 2020, with respect to the Governor's declared state of emergency due to COVID-19. Under the bill, any meeting by a public body using electronic communication means occurring
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Cherry
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0305) on 04/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
FOIA; meetings held through electronic communication during declared states of emergency. [SB-244]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; effective date of procedures for conducting meetings held through electronic communication means during declared states of emergency. Provides that the provisions for conducting a meeting by electronic means due to a state of emergency stated in the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) are declarative of existing law since March 20, 2020, with respect to the Governor's declared state of emergency due to COVID-19. Under the bill, any meeting by a public body using electronic communication means occurring
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jeremy McPike
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0344) on 04/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Insurance; conducting business by electronic means. [HB-595]
Insurance; conducting business by electronic means. Authorizes a plan sponsor of a health benefit plan, including a dental or vision benefit plan, to agree on behalf of a party enrolled in the sponsored health benefit plan to conduct business by electronic means, provided that the plan sponsor, prior to agreeing on behalf of the party, has confirmed that the party routinely uses electronic communications during the normal course of employment and has provided notice to the party regarding the ability to opt out of using electronic means at any time.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Sullivan
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0197) on 03/28/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Financial institutions; consumer has option of completing certain payments electronically. [SB-166]
Financial institutions; certain payments required electronically. Requires any financial institution that initiates an electronic fund transfer as payment for the sale to a consumer of a security issued by such financial institution to make available to the consumer the option of completing any payment of principal, interest, dividend, or other distribution related to the security via an electronic fund transfer. Financial institutions; certain payments required electronically. Requires any financial institution that initiates an electronic fund
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Sponsored by: Sen. Bryce Reeves
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0422) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Candidates for office; electronic filing of forms, petitions, and notifications. [HB-440]
Elections; candidates for office; electronic filing of forms, petitions, and notifications with Department of Elections. Requires the Department of Elections to develop and implement an online filing system to accept any form, petition, or notification filed by electronic means by a party official or candidate. The bill requires the State Board of Elections to develop standards for the electronic preparation, production, submission, and transmittal of all forms required of party officials and candidates. The bill also requires the State Board to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joshua Cole
Continued To 2025 In Privileges And Elections By Voice Vote on 02/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Public Procurement Act; submissions of bids or proposals on electronic procurement system. [HB-311]
Virginia Public Procurement Act; local public bodies; electronic submissions of bids or proposals. Mandates that all local public bodies provide an option to submit bids or proposals for procurement contracts through the Commonwealth's statewide electronic procurement system, known as eVA, or other electronic means. Current law only encourages local public bodies to use eVA for such submissions. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025. Virginia Public Procurement Act; local public bodies; electronic submissions of bids or proposals.
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Hope
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0438) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
FOIA; virtual public meetings, etc. [SB-1351]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings; local and regional public bodies. Allows, with certain exceptions, local and regional public bodies to convene no more than 50 percent of the meetings held per calendar year rounded up to the next whole number as an all-virtual public meeting. Current law limits all-virtual public meetings to no more than two times per calendar year or 25 percent of the meetings held per calendar year rounded up to the next whole number, whichever is greater, and prohibits any such meeting from being held
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Sponsored by: Sen. Dave Marsden
Left In General Laws on 02/22/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings, local and regional public bodies. [HB-2050]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; electronic meetings; local and regional public bodies. Allows, with certain exceptions, local and regional public bodies to convene as many all-virtual public meetings as each such public body deems acceptable in its individual remote participation meeting policy, to be adopted at least once annually by recorded vote at a public meeting. Current law limits all-virtual public meetings to no more than two times per calendar year or 25 percent of the meetings held per calendar year rounded up to the next whole number,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Elizabeth Bennett-Parker
Left In General Laws on 02/07/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Higher educational institutions, public; agreement to provide aggregated, nonconfidential case data. [HB-2120]
Office of the Executive Secretary; public institutions of higher education; agreement to provide aggregated, nonconfidential case data in electronic format. Allows the Office of the Executive Secretary, at the request of a public institution of higher education, to enter into an agreement to provide aggregated, nonconfidential case data, including names and partial dates of birth of parties, in electronic format. The bill specifies that such data shall not be subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sally Hudson
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Health insurance; electronic prior authorization and disclosure of certain information. [SB-1261]
Health insurance; electronic prior authorization and disclosure of certain information; out-of-pocket costs; report. Requires each health insurance carrier, beginning July 1, 2025, to establish and maintain an online process that (i) links directly to all e-prescribing systems and electronic health record systems that utilize the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs SCRIPT standard and the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs Real Time Benefit Standard; (ii) can accept electronic prior authorization requests from a provider;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0475) on 03/24/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; public records charges, electronic payment method. [HB-2006]
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; public records charges; electronic payment method. Provides that any local public body that charges for the production of public records pursuant to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act may provide an electronic method of payment through which all payments for the production of such records to such locality may be made.
Sponsored by: Sen. Danica Roem
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0534) on 03/26/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Bank franchise tax; electronic access to banks for real estate assessment records, etc. [HB-1896]
Bank franchise tax; report. Provides for the electronic filing of bank franchise tax returns through a secure online portal maintained by the Department of Taxation and extends the time to file such tax return by 60 days. The bill also requires localities to provide banks access to real estate assessment records upon request. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025, and directs the Department to convene a work group to assess potential alternative methods for the filing and allocation of bank franchise tax revenues.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0050) on 03/17/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Bank franchise tax; electronic access to banks for real estate assessment records, etc. [SB-1182]
Bank franchise tax; report. Provides for the electronic filing of bank franchise tax returns through a secure online portal maintained by the Department of Taxation and extends the time to file such tax return by 60 days. The bill also requires localities to provide banks access to real estate assessment records upon request. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025, and directs the Department to convene a work group to assess potential alternative methods for the filing and allocation of bank franchise tax revenues.
Sponsored by: Sen. Frank Ruff
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0051) on 03/17/2023