HB 707 — State government; transaction of public business, prohibited website domains.
VA 20261 session
State government; transaction of public business; prohibited website domains. Prohibits a public body, defined in the bill, from maintaining an official website for public use with a domain other than a .gov, .edu, or .museum domain. The bill provides that any email address that a public body provides to its employees shall utilize a .gov domain and directs the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of the bill. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2029.
Latest action: — Continued
Sponsors (1)
- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. (D, VA) — sponsor
Action timeline (21)
- · house · H4020 —
- · house · H1101 —
- · house · H1112 —
- · house · H8500 —
- · house · H8120 —
- · house · H1118 —
- · house · H1108 —
- · house · H4640 —
- · house · H0212 —
- · house · H0216 —
- · house · H0205 —
- · house · H0205 —
- · house · H8500 —
- · house · H4110 —
- · house · H4120 —
- · house · H4410 —
- · house · H4601 —
- · house · H5000 —
- · senate · S4140 —
- · senate · S1201 —
- · senate · S1240 —
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Bill text (extracted)
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1 typed relationship in the influence graph — 0 inbound, 1 outbound, grouped by type.
referred to committee (1)
| date | dir | entity | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | → | General Laws and Technology | — | va-leg |
Who matters on this bill
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. (D, state_lower VA) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
Stance (positions taken)
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Timeline
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- 2026-05-24 · was referred to General Laws and Technology · va-leg