Libraries

Passed

P HB209

Public Records Act; electronic records. Updates the Public Records Act to include provisions relating to the management and archiving of electronic records. The bill creates new definitions for electronic records, lifecycle, metadata, conversion, and migration, and amends the powers and duties of the Library Board to be medium-neutral and to allow the Library to issue regulations and guidelines related to the lifecycle of records, generally. The bill requires the custodians of records to convert and migrate electronic data as necessary to maintain access to these records. Finally, the bill allows the Library to conduct audits of the record keeping practices of agencies subject to the act, and to file the audit reports with the Governor and the General Assembly. The bill also includes numerous technical amendments. This bill is a recommendation of the HJR 6 study (2004).
Patron - Cox

P HB210

State Publications Depository Program. Amends the State Publications Depository Program to include electronic publications, and clarifies that the requirements of the Program apply to all state agencies in any branch of government. The bill allows The Library of Virginia to authorize agencies to send certain publication information to the Library, instead of the publications themselves, to facilitate the collection and dissemination of state publications in electronic form. The bill creates a new reporting requirement for The Library of Virginia to annually report to the Governor and the chairmen of the House and Senate Committees on General Laws, the House Appropriations Committee, and the Senate Finance Committee which agencies do not send The Library of Virginia the publications required under the Depository Program. The bill creates a new chapter for the Depository Program, and includes a policy statement. The bill also repeals a current provision requiring The Library of Virginia to annually compile a listing of publications printed by each state agency during the previous fiscal year, which it must currently do in addition to the statutory requirement that it annually compile a catalog of all publications currently available at each agency. This bill is a recommendation of the HJR 6 study (2004).
Patron - Cox

P HB382

Professional librarians; qualifications. Provides that public libraries serving a political subdivision or subdivisions having a population greater than 13,000 and libraries operated by the Commonwealth or under its authority shall not employ, in the position of librarian or in any other full-time professional librarian position, a person who does not meet the qualifications established by the State Library Board. Currently such public libraries cannot use funds derived from any state aid to employ a professional librarian who does not meet the qualifications established by the State Library Board. The bill provides that it applies to any person employed on or after July 1, 2006.
Patron - Suit

P SB461

Virginia Public Records Act; timely destruction of records. Provides that each agency shall ensure that records created after July 1, 2006 and authorized to be destroyed or discarded under the Virginia Public Records Act, are destroyed or discarded within six months of the expiration of the record's retention period in accordance with the provisions of the Virginia Public Records Act. The bill also provides that all records previously authorized to be destroyed must be destroyed in a timely manner.
Patron - Devolites Davis

Failed

F HB570

Technology protection measures; public libraries. Requires the library board or governing body of a library that receives state funding for any purpose to include in its acceptable use policy for the Internet provisions on selecting and installing on those computers that have Internet access a technology protection measure to filter or block Internet access through such computers to child pornography as set out in § 18.2-374.1:1, obscenity as defined in § 18.2-372 and, with respect to minors, materials deemed harmful to juveniles as defined in § 18.2-390. The bill also requires the policy to include a provision for disabling the technology protection measure at the request of a patron in instances of bona fide research or other lawful purposes.
Patron - Nixon

F HB959

Virginia Public Records Act; timely destruction of records. Provides that each agency shall ensure that records authorized to be destroyed or discarded under the Virginia Public Records Act, are destroyed or discarded in a timely manner in accordance with the provisions of the Virginia Public Records Act.
Patron - Cox

F SB176

Public Library Internet Protection Fund; established; purposes. Establishes the Public Library Internet Protection Fund. The bill permits grants from the Fund to be made to reimburse free public libraries and library systems for the initial purchase and subsequent renewal of technology protection measures for computers that have access to the Internet. The bill limits the grant amount for any given fiscal year depending on the type of grant. The Fund would be administered by the Board of the Library of Virginia. This bill incorporates SB 334.
Patron - Wampler

F SB334

Technology; required protection measures; public libraries; exception. Requires the library board or governing body of a library that receives state funding for any purpose to include in its acceptable use policy for the Internet provisions requiring the selection, installation, and activation on those computers that have Internet access a technology protection measure, as selected by the Library of Virginia, to filter or block Internet access through such computers to child pornography as set out in § 18.2-374.1:1, obscenity as defined in § 18.2-372, and, with respect to minors, materials deemed harmful to juveniles as defined in § 18.2-390. The bill also requires the library board or governing body to actually select, install, and activate the technology protection measure. The bill provides an exception which allows a person authorized by the library to disable the technology protection measure at the request of the patron for bona fide research or other lawful purpose.
Patron - Obenshain

Carried Over

C HB1544

Houdon statue. Provides that the Librarian of Virginia ensure the care of molds, patterns, or other means of three-dimensional replications of Houdon's statue of Washington; establishes a procedure for authorizing future uses of molds, patterns, and other means of three-dimensional replications of the statue with royalties payable to the Virginia Capitol Preservation Foundation; and makes unauthorized uses subject to the penalties for damaging library property under § 42.1-72.
Patron - Howell, W.J.

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