---
type: "Bill"
title: "Accounts filed by fiduciaries and reports filed by guardians; civil penalty."
description: "Accounts filed by fiduciaries and reports filed by guardians; civil penalty. Provides that any account filed by a fiduciary with the commissioner of accounts and annual report filed by a guardian with the local department of social services shall be signed under oath and that the punishment for making a false statement or entry in such a filing is a civil penalty of not more than $500. This bill is identical to SB 261."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1166"
citation: "Virginia HB 1166 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William C. Wampler III"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dad6ff62-a0ab-44ed-89c5-782bc28cfd3d"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1166"
source_hash: "18c1da32c616124dafdc3212bc5960b0753a8654f243c63e06ab91a0fdffbafc"
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 1166 (2020) — Accounts filed by fiduciaries and reports filed by guardians; civil penalty.

Accounts filed by fiduciaries and reports filed by guardians; civil penalty. Provides that any account filed by a fiduciary with the commissioner of accounts and annual report filed by a guardian with the local department of social services shall be signed under oath and that the punishment for making a false statement or entry in such a filing is a civil penalty of not more than $500. This bill is identical to SB 261.

## Version chain

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

1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0372)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0372)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1166ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1166ER)
3. **Engrossed by House - floor substitute HB1166H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1166H1)
4. **Impact statement from VCSC (HB1166)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1166)

## Votes

- Reported from Courts of Justice (16-Y 1-N) — **16–1** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 0-N) — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (92-Y 7-N) — **91–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- William C. Wampler III — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103605D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08** Impact statement from VCSC (HB1166)
- **2020-02-06** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-07** Reported from Courts of Justice (16-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-10** Floor substitute printed 20108048D-H1 (Wampler)
- **2020-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-10** Substitute by Delegate Wampler agreed to 20108048D-H1
- **2020-02-10** Engrossed by House - floor substitute HB1166H1
- **2020-02-11** Read third time and passed House (92-Y 7-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-11** VOTE: Passage (92-Y 7-N)
- **2020-02-12** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-12** Referred to Committee on the Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** Impact statement from DPB (HB1166H1)
- **2020-02-19** Reported from Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-24** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-24** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-28** Enrolled
- **2020-02-28** Impact statement from DPB (HB1166ER)
- **2020-02-28** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-02** Signed by President
- **2020-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2020
- **2020-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 372 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dad6ff62-a0ab-44ed-89c5-782bc28cfd3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).