                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS; DUTY TO FILE WITH REGISTRAR (§ 2.2-4103.1)

A. For the purposes of this section, &#8220;agency&#8221; means any authority,
instrumentality, officer, board, or other unit of the government of the
Commonwealth other than the General Assembly, courts, municipal corporations,
counties, other local or regional governmental authorities including sanitary or
other districts and joint state-federal, interstate or intermunicipal
authorities, the Virginia Resources Authority, the Virginia Code Commission with
respect to minor changes made under the provisions of &#xA7; 30-150, and
educational institutions operated by the Commonwealth with respect to
regulations that pertain to (i) their academic affairs; (ii) the selection,
tenure, promotion, and disciplining of faculty and employees; (iii) the
selection of students; and (iv) rules of conduct and disciplining of students.

B. It shall be the duty of every agency to annually file with the Registrar for
publication in the Virginia Register of Regulations a list of any guidance
documents upon which the agency currently relies. The filing shall be made on or
before January 1 of each year in a format to be developed by the Registrar. Each
agency shall also (i) maintain a complete list of all of its currently operative
guidance documents and make the list available for public inspection, (ii) make
available for public inspection the full texts of all guidance documents to the
extent inspection is permitted by law, and (iii) upon request, make copies of
such lists or guidance documents available without charge, at cost, or upon
payment of a reasonable fee.

C. Nothing in this section is intended to nor shall it confer or impose any
regulatory authority upon an agency, nor shall this section create any rights to
appeal or challenge a guidance document adopted by an agency.

HISTORY: 2017, c. 488.