---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prepayment analytics; DMAS shall establish program relating to fraud prevention."
description: "Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish a program to mitigate, through the use of prepayment analytics, the risk of improper payments to providers of services that are paid through the Department's fee-for-service delivery system who commit fraud, abuse, or errors."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2417"
citation: "Virginia HB 2417 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes and Offenses Generally", "Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Steven Landes"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 12
first_action: "2017-01-19"
last_action: "2017-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0acfceb-3577-4b54-972d-eb49026775cf"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2417"
source_hash: "934b9fc7a431a9d4a1f53f0c8136a9ef1df630bd0add495ac2d2b332ec1259b9"
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 2417 (2017) — Prepayment analytics; DMAS shall establish program relating to fraud prevention.

Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to establish a program to mitigate, through the use of prepayment analytics, the risk of improper payments to providers of services that are paid through the Department's fee-for-service delivery system who commit fraud, abuse, or errors.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0750)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0750)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2417ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2417ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 17104161D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2417)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17104161D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2417E)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendments — **21–1** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendment — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendment rejected by House — **0–100** (fail) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **94–2** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate receded from amendment — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance with amendment — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendment — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Appropriations — **20–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- R. Steven Landes — primary (person)
- David B. Albo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-19** Presented and ordered printed 17104161D `introduction`
- **2017-01-19** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-30** Motion to refer to committee agreed to
- **2017-01-30** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House as amended HB2417E
- **2017-02-06** Printed as engrossed 17104161D-E
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House (94-Y 2-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-21** Reading of amendment waived
- **2017-02-21** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-21** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2017-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-22** Senate amendment rejected by House (0-Y 100-N)
- **2017-03-07** Enrolled
- **2017-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-03-10** Signed by President
- **2017-03-13** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
- **2017-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 750 (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/c0acfceb-3577-4b54-972d-eb49026775cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).