Under existing law, although not many provisions exist to protect your home address and phone number from being disclosed to, say, sales pests, Virginia is highly protective of your marital status. If you want to engage in adultery (or even bigamy) with a person who would never knowingly touch someone else's wife or husband, you can go to the next town up the road where nobody knows your spouse, tell this person who respects marriage that you're single, and rest assured that the law prohibits anyone but you from warning this person that you are legally married.
Virginia Senate Bill #309 will, if accepted by the House of Delegates as easily as it was by the State Senate, change this existing degree of protection for philanderers...slightly. Twenty-five years after the date of marriage or divorce, under SB309, the information that a person was married or divorced would be made available to anyone who already had the person's name and address. Full text:
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+SB309
Personally, I think a good case could be made for putting people's marital status on whatever they use as a state ID document (driver's license, passport, or just an ID card).
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