---
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).