---
type: "Bill"
title: "Fraud prevention; DMAS to expand its existing program."
description: "Fraud prevention; DMAS to expand its existing program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2015"
citation: "Virginia HB 2015 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes and Offenses Generally", "Health", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher K. Peace"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-01-07"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0dbf160-cfe3-4f85-80fb-f21e726c62de"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2015"
source_hash: "9e2fdd2f22929f485b9d17d9a5420c4b9e50e9cf9d4bfaa6977784e4f378018f"
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 2015 (2019) — Fraud prevention; DMAS to expand its existing program.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0422)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0422)
2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2015AH)
3. **House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/subcommitteeaction.aspx?ses=191&bil=HB2015)
4. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2015ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2015ER)
5. **House: Committee substitute printed 19105101D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2015H1)
6. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101826D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2015)
7. **House: Printed as engrossed 19105101D-EH1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2015EH1)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations with amendments — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Christopher K. Peace — primary (person)
- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101826D `introduction`
- **2019-01-07** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-17** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-17** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** Committee substitute from HWI agreed to 19105101D-H1
- **2019-02-04** Committee amendments from Appropriations agreed to
- **2019-02-04** Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendments HB2015EH1
- **2019-02-04** Printed as engrossed 19105101D-EH1
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 422 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e0dbf160-cfe3-4f85-80fb-f21e726c62de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).