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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Consumer finance companies; authority of Attorney General to issue civil investigative demand."
+description: "Consumer finance companies; authority of Attorney General to issue civil investigative demand."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 974"
+citation: "Virginia SB 974 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Peake"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2023-01-06"
+last_action: "2023-03-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8dbe732e-cfb7-43cf-9578-fb6ef87d6d63"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB974"
+source_hash: "8652d2f741f5e88cd99966a654f16f2fd2ddac11557bacc248a42c8d966ad5e0"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia SB 974 (2023) — Consumer finance companies; authority of Attorney General to issue civil investigative demand.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0469** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0469)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101762D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB974)
+3. **Printed as engrossed 23101762D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB974E)
+4. **SB974ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB974ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Commerce and Energy (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Peake — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101762D `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-06** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-16** Impact statement from DPB (SB974)
+- **2023-01-16** Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-18** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-01-19** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-19** Reading of amendments waived
+- **2023-01-19** Committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-01-19** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB974E
+- **2023-01-19** Printed as engrossed 23101762D-E
+- **2023-01-20** Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-01-24** Impact statement from DPB (SB974E)
+- **2023-02-10** Placed on Calendar
+- **2023-02-10** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-10** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-16** Reported from Commerce and Energy (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-21** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-21** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-24** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-24** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB974ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-02-24** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB974ER)
+- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
+- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 469 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-24** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0469)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8dbe732e-cfb7-43cf-9578-fb6ef87d6d63`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+