Urge Legislators to Vote YES to Expanding Use of Virtual Meetings
SB 734 expands flexibility for volunteer advisory bodies to hold all virtual meetings, while retaining guardrails to ensure public access and transparency.
- Current restrictions on the use of virtual meetings limits who can serve on these bodies and the work those bodies can accomplish.
- Professional obligations, childcare, and transportation difficulties prevent many from serving on bodies that primarily meet in person.
- Better, more representative public policy is created when residents with diverse voices and lived experiences can participate in their government through service on a board or commission.
Even before COVID, a majority of other states allowed virtual meetings without the kinds of restrictions
now in place in Virginia.
