---
type: "Bill"
title: "Financial exploitation of adults; reporting to local law enforcement and State Police."
description: "Clarifies that all cases involving suspected financial exploitation of an adult shall be immediately referred to a local law-enforcement agency for investigation. The bill directs local law-enforcement agencies to provide a preferred point of contact for referrals. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1922"
citation: "Virginia HB 1922 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Persons with Disabilities", "Police", "Senior Citizens", "Welfare (Social Services)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert B. Bell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad67344d-edb7-4610-ac78-484204fd2741"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1922"
source_hash: "5908cfaac57cb75ea7946b6af5d7da1dbab899329992753d5ee7f9321e56f4c5"
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 HB 1922 (2017) — Financial exploitation of adults; reporting to local law enforcement and State Police.

Clarifies that all cases involving suspected financial exploitation of an adult shall be immediately referred to a local law-enforcement agency for investigation. The bill directs local law-enforcement agencies to provide a preferred point of contact for referrals. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0459)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0459)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1922ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1922ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100061D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1922)
4. **Senate: Floor substitute printed 17105522D-S1 (McPike)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1922S1)

## Votes

- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendment — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Committee amendment reconsidered — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with substitute — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate substitute agreed to by House 17105522D-S1 — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with substitute — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Robert B. Bell — primary (person)
- Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher T. Head — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100061D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-01** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-14** Reading of amendment waived
- **2017-02-14** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-14** Passed by for the day
- **2017-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** Passed by for the day
- **2017-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-16** Committee amendment rejected
- **2017-02-16** Reading of substitute waived
- **2017-02-16** Floor substitute printed 17105522D-S1 (McPike)
- **2017-02-16** Substitute by Senator McPike agreed to 17105522D-S1
- **2017-02-16** Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute HB1922S1
- **2017-02-20** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-20** Senate substitute agreed to by House 17105522D-S1 (94-Y 0-N)
- **2017-02-23** Enrolled
- **2017-02-23** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 459 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad67344d-edb7-4610-ac78-484204fd2741`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).