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+type: "Bill"
+title: "To facilitate the sharing of information between the Department of Health and Human Resources and the State Auditor’s office in order to investigate reports of financial abuse and neglect of a vulnerable adult"
+description: "To facilitate the sharing of information between the Department of Health and Human Resources and the State Auditor’s office in order to investigate reports of financial abuse and neglect of a vulnerable adult"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 4297"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4297 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Crime", "Health"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Westfall"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-01-20"
+last_action: "2022-04-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82bffd21-b49e-442b-bcd4-4fc02005d0bd"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4297&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "f01fb3442c15cf2e85bca307188a6eb1bcd72dc1a51de51c1e16bea2d1e53987"
+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-wv"]
+---
+
+# West Virginia HB 4297 (2022) — To facilitate the sharing of information between the Department of Health and Human Resources and the State Auditor’s office in order to investigate reports of financial abuse and neglect of a vulnerable adult
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4297%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4297)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4297%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4297)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4297%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4297)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **30–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Westfall — primary (person)
+- Pack — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2022-01-20** To Government Organization then Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2022-01-20** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-27** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2022-01-27** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-07** By substitute, do pass
+- **2022-02-08** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-02-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-09** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-02-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-10** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-02-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-02-10** Passed House (Roll No. 101) `passage`
+- **2022-02-10** Communicated to Senate
+- **2022-02-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2022-02-11** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-11** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-04** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2022-03-07** On 1st reading
+- **2022-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2022-03-07** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 362)
+- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 363) `passage`
+- **2022-03-07** Communicated to House
+- **2022-03-07** Completed legislative action
+- **2022-03-08** House received Senate message
+- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-17** To Governor 3/17/22 `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
+- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
+- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
+- **2022-04-19** Chapter 141, Acts, Regular Session, 2022
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/82bffd21-b49e-442b-bcd4-4fc02005d0bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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