                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

VERIFICATION SYSTEM (§ 46.2-229)

A. The Department or its agent may create and operate a verification system.

B. The Department may enter into agreements with other government agencies or
jurisdictions issuing electronic credentials to allow for the verification of
those credentials through the verification system and may also enter into
agreements with other government agencies or jurisdictions or their agents
operating a similar verification system for the purpose of verifying Virginia
electronic credentials used in other states.

C. The Department or its agent may enter into an agreement with a person to
access and search the verification system. Any such agreement shall require, at
a minimum, that the person to whom the Department is granting access agree to
search the system only in compliance with the requirements of this section and
to take appropriate measures to protect the credential holder&#8217;s privacy.

D. A person who has entered into an agreement with the Department to access and
search the verification system, and who has been presented with an electronic
credential or profile, may search the verification system to verify the validity
and accuracy of the electronic credential or profile that has been presented if
the electronic credential holder consents to the search.

E. Following a search of the verification system made by a person with whom it
has entered into an agreement pursuant to subsection C, the Department may
release through the verification system a verification of those data fields that
the electronic credential holder has consented to be verified.

HISTORY: 2017, c. 697.