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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & ACCESS;
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT
Carried Over to 2001
HOUSE BILL 1491
Trade and commerce; Virginia Website Protection Act.
Patron: Jeannemarie Devolites
Summary: Creates the Virginia Website Protection
Act ("Act"). The Act gives legal recognition to the
existing and future conventions and protocols that comprise the
World Wide Web by establishing that a website is personal property
and creates new civil causes of actions to redress wrongful conduct
injurious to website owners. To take advantage of the protections
of the Act, a website owner must register with the State Corporation
Commission and domesticate his website in Virginia. The SCC is
to establish and maintain the Virginia Website Registry; however,
the SCC is not to enforce, interpret, or validate any provision
of the agreement between the website owner and the website user
nor hear any case or controversy arising out of such agreement.
HOUSE BILL 1493
Privacy Protection Act.
Patron: Jeannemarie Devolites
Summary: Provides that no agency shall disclose
the personal information (as defined in the act) of any data
subject unless the disclosure of such information (i) is specifically
required by federal or state law, (ii) is to another agency where
disclosure is necessary for the performance of either agency's
official duties as prescribed by law, or (iii) is made pursuant
to other provisions of the Privacy Protection Act.
SENATE BILL 607
Freedom of Information Act; records exemptions.
Patron: Richard L. Saslaw
Summary: Provides a records exemption from
the Freedom of Information Act for logs or other similar records
maintained by the clerk of any circuit court which can be used
to identify both (i) the name of any person who has reviewed
criminal records in the possession of the clerk and (ii) the
criminal records such person has reviewed, to the extent that
release of such logs or other similar records would jeopardize
the safety of the person whose name appears therein.
SENATE BILL 767
Trade and commerce; Virginia Website Protection Act.
Patron: Patricia S. Ticer
Summary: See HB 1491, which is similar but
not identical.
Further Information
Alan Albert: 757/624-3055 (Norfolk), 804/697-1368 (Richmond)
E-mail: aalbert@maysval.com
Anne Leigh Kerr: 804/697-1465
E-mail: alkerr@maysval.com
(c) 2000 Virginia Association of Local Elected Constitutional
Officers.
This report may not be reproduced in whole or in part without
the written permission of the copyright holder.
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