Law – Constitution of Virginia
Legislative Information System
Law – Supreme Court of Virginia
Virginia’s Judicial System Web Site
Supreme Court of Virginia Case Information
Law – Virginia General Assembly
Legislative Information System
Bills & Resolutions – status of individual bills and related information
General Assembly Members – member sponsored legislation
Standing Committees – legislation referred to committee
State Budget – budget bills, committees and summaries
Daily Floor Calendars – legislative agendas
Communications – legislation communicated between houses
House Minutes / Senate Minutes – record of floor sessions
Meetings – House and Senate committee meeting schedule
Statistics – session statistics
Lobbyist-in-a-Box – subscription-based bill tracking service
Cumulative Index – subject index of bills and resolutions
Searchable Databases:
Bills & Resolutions – session legislation
Bill Summaries – session summaries
Constitution – Constitution of Virginia
Code of Virginia – statutory law
Virginia Administrative Code – state agency rules
Reports to the General Assembly – House and Senate documents
Rules of the Supreme Court – court rules
Lobbyists: Processes and Regulations
Virginia law requires registration with the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth prior to engaging in lobbying, unless he or she satisfies one of the exemptions set forth in statute. A lobbyist is any individual who is employed in any manner or who is reimbursed for expenses, or who represents an organization, association or other group for the purpose of influencing or attempting to influence executive or legislative action through oral or written communication with an executive or legislative official; this includes anyone who solicits others to influence an executive or legislative official.
Law – Code of Virginia
Legislative Information System
Title 2.2 – ADMINISTRATION OF GOVERNMENT.
Chapter 31 – State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act
Chapter 37 – Virginia Freedom of Information Act
Chapter 43 – Virginia Public Procurement Act
Title 15.2 – COUNTIES, CITIES AND TOWNS.
Law – Attorney General
Law – Regulations
Law – General
Virginia Municipal League, see Planning
Open Government
Albemarle County
American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia
The ACLU of Virginia protects the right to attend government meetings and obtain public records.
Commonwealth of Virginia Official Web Site
Virginia Open Government & Transparency
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Open Government Guide: Virginia
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is pleased to make this comprehensive guide available to you at no cost.
Richmond Sunlight is a website that aggregates information about the General Assembly, the lawmaking body that governs the state of Virginia. It is an independent, volunteer-run website that is in no way affiliated with the Virginia General Assembly or the state government.
Virginia Coalition for Open Government
We are a nonprofit alliance formed to promote expanded access to government records, meetings and other proceedings at the state and local level. Our efforts are focused solely on local/state information access.
Virginia’s FOIA: The Law (Text with latest revisions indicated.)
Virginia’s FOIA: Resources / Help
Virginia’s FOIA: Opinions
Ask Us a FOIA Question
VCOG Newsletter
In the News
Virginia Public Access Project
The Virginia Public Access Project is a non-partisan tracker of money in Virginia politics.
Virginia Freedom of Information Act Advisory Council
The Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council, a state agency, is an office with the expertise to help resolve disputes over Freedom of Information issues. The FOIA Council answers questions from private citizens, state and local public officials, and the media about access to public records and meetings. Under Virginia law, the presumption is that all documents in the possession of public officials and all meetings of state and local public bodies are open to citizens of the Commonwealth. Of course, there are exceptions and these exceptions can lead to good faith disagreements between citizens or media and public officials.
Model Rights & Responsibilities Template
Planning
PlanVirginia is a volunteer, nonprofit (501 (c)(3)) dedicated to furthering throughout the Commonwealth public understanding and awareness of the need for excellent community planning as a means of making our localities better places in which to live, work, and do business.
Virginia Association of Planning District Commissions
“…to encourage and facilitate local government cooperation and state-local cooperation in addressing on a regional basis problems of greater than local significance. The cooperation resulting from this chapter is intended to facilitate the recognition and analysis of regional opportunities and take account of regional influences in planning and implementing public policies and services.
The planning district commission shall also promote the orderly and efficient development of the physical, social and economic elements of the district by planning, and encouraging and assisting localities to plan, for the future.”
Virginia Chapter of the American Planning Association
Our mission is to make great communities happen in Virginia by offering continuing professional development and other valuable services to our members that will enable them to excel in their practice. We are committed to raising awareness about the many benefits planning offers as a foundation for effectively addressing the physical, economic, and social changes that take place in Virginia, and to providing effective leadership in planning advocacy reflective of a diverse geography and population.
The Virginia Municipal League is a statewide, nonprofit, nonpartisan association of city, town and county governments established in 1905 to improve and assist local governments through legislative advocacy, research, education and other services.
Voting
The State Board of Elections (SBE) was created in 1946 as a bipartisan agency responsible for ensuring uniformity, fairness, accuracy and purity in all elections in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The agency promotes the proper administration of election laws, campaign finance disclosure compliance, and voter registration processes in Virginia by promulgating rules, regulations, issuing instructions, and providing information to local electoral boards and general registrars. In addition, the agency maintains a centralized database of state-wide voter registration and election related data.