                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FURNISHING REPORTS; GOVERNOR AUTHORIZED TO REQUIRE REPORTS (§ 2.2-608)

A. Agencies, institutions, collegial bodies, and other governmental entities
that are specifically required by the Code of Virginia to report annually or
biennially to the Governor and General Assembly shall post such annual or
biennial reports on the respective entity&#8217;s website on or before October 1
of each year, unless otherwise specified. No hard copies of annual and biennial
reports shall be printed except in instances where copies are requested by a
member of the General Assembly in accordance with the provisions of &#xA7;
30-34.4:1. The Governor may require any agency to furnish an annual or biennial
report in a written or electronic format.

B. Each state entity required to submit a report to multiple legislative branch
entities pursuant to subsection C may develop a single consolidated report
containing the required information. Such report shall be (i) formatted to
comply with any specific reporting requirement, and (ii) provided in a manner
designed to clearly delineate each legislative branch entity for which specific
information is provided.

C. Any agency, institution, collegial body, or other governmental entity outside
of the legislative branch of government required to submit a report to the
General Assembly or any committee, subcommittee, commission, agency, or other
body within the legislative branch or to the chairman or agency head of such
entity shall distribute a copy of such report to each member of the General
Assembly who requests a copy in accordance with the provisions of &#xA7;
30-34.4:1. A consolidated report developed pursuant to subsection B shall
satisfy any reporting requirement under this subsection. The cost of printing
and distributing reports shall be borne by the reporting entity or its
supporting agency.

D. Any agency, institution, collegial body, or other governmental entity outside
of the legislative branch of government required to submit a report to (i) the
General Assembly or any committee, subcommittee, commission, agency, or other
body within the legislative branch or (ii) the chairman or agency head of any
such entity shall make such reports available as read-only and text-searchable
Portable Document Format (.pdf) files or some other widely used and accessible
read-only and text-searchable electronic document format. All requests for such
reports shall be made electronically unless expressly requested otherwise.

HISTORY: 1984, c. 734, § 2.1-2.1; 2001, c. 844; 2004, c. 650; 2009, c. 550;
2011, c. 845; 2012, c. 434; 2020, c. 421.