RICHMOND — A subcommittee mostly comprised of state employees dropped a bill Tuesday that would have expanded rights to public records to non-Virginians.
A majority of the five members present at a meeting of the Freedom of Information Advisory Council, including Stephanie Hamlett, deputy counsel to Gov. Bob McDonnell, senior assistant attorney general James Schliessmann and Bob Tavenner, head of the Division of Legislative Services, decided not to push a 2013 bill referred to their council that would have required Virginia to comply with all requests from U.S. citizens.
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