---
type: "Bill"
title: "To facilitate the sharing of information between the Department of Health and Human Resources and the State Auditor’s office in order to investigate reports of financial abuse and neglect of a vulnerable adult"
description: "To facilitate the sharing of information between the Department of Health and Human Resources and the State Auditor’s office in order to investigate reports of financial abuse and neglect of a vulnerable adult"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4297"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4297 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime", "Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Westfall"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-20"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82bffd21-b49e-442b-bcd4-4fc02005d0bd"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4297&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "f01fb3442c15cf2e85bca307188a6eb1bcd72dc1a51de51c1e16bea2d1e53987"
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 4297 (2022) — To facilitate the sharing of information between the Department of Health and Human Resources and the State Auditor’s office in order to investigate reports of financial abuse and neglect of a vulnerable adult

## 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=HB4297%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4297)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4297%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4297)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4297%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4297)

## Votes

- Passage — **30–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Westfall — primary (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-20** To Government Organization then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-20** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-27** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-07** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-02-08** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-09** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-10** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-10** Passed House (Roll No. 101) `passage`
- **2022-02-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-11** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-11** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-07** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-07** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 362)
- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 363) `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2022-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-17** To Governor 3/17/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 141, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/82bffd21-b49e-442b-bcd4-4fc02005d0bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).