---
type: "Bill"
title: "The Protection of Vulnerable Adults from Financial Exploitation Act"
description: "The Protection of Vulnerable Adults from Financial Exploitation Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4377"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4377 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Human Rights", "Senior Citizens"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Westfall"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 44
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-16"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ea53425-4459-45e3-be7b-7d5603df1a45"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4377&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "6e822f441f9b26883ff5fde5105c9e7c51449dbe7d59701b33cd03d1aec04ccb"
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 4377 (2020) — The Protection of Vulnerable Adults from Financial Exploitation Act

## 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=HB4377%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4377)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4377%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4377)
3. **HB4377 HFA SHOTT 3-7 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4377 HFA SHOTT 3-7 _1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB4377 HFAT SHOTT 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4377 HFAT SHOTT 3-7 adopted.htm)
5. **HB4377 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4377 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
6. **HB4377 S JUD AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4377 S JUD AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
7. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4377%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4377)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **96–3** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **95–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Westfall — primary (person)
- Atkinson — cosponsor (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Storch — cosponsor (person)
- Toney — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-16** To Senior, Children, and Family Issues then Judiciary
- **2020-01-16** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-16** To House Senior, Children, and Family Issues `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-30** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-30** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 311) `passage`
- **2020-02-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-26** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-03** Immediate consideration
- **2020-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-04** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-04** Removed from calendar by Rules Committee
- **2020-03-05** Returned to calendar by Rules Committee
- **2020-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-06** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-06** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 497) `passage`
- **2020-03-06** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 714)
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 627)
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 321, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ea53425-4459-45e3-be7b-7d5603df1a45`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).