---
type: "Bill"
title: "Including undue influence as a factor in the definition of financial exploitation of an elderly person or protected person"
description: "Including undue influence as a factor in the definition of financial exploitation of an elderly person or protected person"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2618"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2618 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Actions", "Suits and Liens"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rowan"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 43
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37ade91a-2697-41d7-b745-7a2c7a9a65a4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2618&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "4cbddd8bad93f402a90e92d67bf8ecff49a2f085209bcd72d3f4ac1d2b979bf5"
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 2618 (2019) — Including undue influence as a factor in the definition of financial exploitation of an elderly person or protected person

## 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=HB2618%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2618)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2618%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2618)
3. **HB2618 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2618 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB2618 S JUD AMT _1 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2618 S JUD AMT _1 3-6 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2618%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2618)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **93–6** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **84–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rowan — primary (person)
- Boggs — cosponsor (person)
- Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Longstreth — cosponsor (person)
- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
- Martin, C. — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-23** To Senior, Children, and Family Issues then Judiciary
- **2019-01-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-23** To House Senior, Children, and Family Issues `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2019-01-25** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-02-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-15** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-15** Motion that bill be recommitted to Judiciary rejected
- **2019-02-15** Passed House (Roll No. 188) `passage`
- **2019-02-15** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-15** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-18** House Message received
- **2019-02-18** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-18** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-06** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-07** On 1st reading
- **2019-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-08** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-09** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 493) `passage`
- **2019-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 733)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** To Governor 3/25/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-10** Chapter 2, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37ade91a-2697-41d7-b745-7a2c7a9a65a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).