republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-1874.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Search warrants; customer records from financial institutions."
description: "Provides that a search warrant for records pertaining to a customer of a financial institution, money transmitter, commercial business that provides credit reports, or credit card issuer may be executed in the Commonwealth by hand, mail, commercial delivery service, facsimile, or other electronic means. The bill requires the executing officer to file the warrant in the circuit court clerk's office where the warrant was executed within three days after receiving the ordered records. The bill eliminates the requirement that a copy of the warrant be filed where the warrant was issued for all search warrants. The bill provides that the search warrant will be considered executed in the jurisdiction where the entity on which the warrant is served is located. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1874"
citation: "Virginia HB 1874 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Procedure", "Financial Institutions and Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brenda L. Pogge"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a16f30a4-0e7d-43a0-bb73-7f6457277234"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1874"
source_hash: "d4a5cfb0c607b85c4b0d9c011a815dd2bceb047b148c4f8a32ffd769dd42a129"
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 1874 (2017) — Search warrants; customer records from financial institutions.

Provides that a search warrant for records pertaining to a customer of a financial institution, money transmitter, commercial business that provides credit reports, or credit card issuer may be executed in the Commonwealth by hand, mail, commercial delivery service, facsimile, or other electronic means. The bill requires the executing officer to file the warrant in the circuit court clerk's office where the warrant was executed within three days after receiving the ordered records. The bill eliminates the requirement that a copy of the warrant be filed where the warrant was issued for all search warrants. The bill provides that the search warrant will be considered executed in the jurisdiction where the entity on which the warrant is served is located. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0641)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0641)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1874ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1874ER)
3. **House: Conference substitute printed 17105578D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1874H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101863D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1874)
5. **House: Printed as engrossed 17101863D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1874E)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate insisted on amendment — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendment rejected by House — **5–89** (fail) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
- Conference report agreed to by Senate — **39–1** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendment — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Conference report agreed to by House — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — **20–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Brenda L. Pogge — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101863D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-13** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-25** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-25** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-01-25** Engrossed by House as amended HB1874E
- **2017-01-25** Printed as engrossed 17101863D-E
- **2017-01-26** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-27** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Reading of amendment waived
- **2017-02-08** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-08** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2017-02-10** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-10** Senate amendment rejected by House (5-Y 89-N)
- **2017-02-14** Senate requested conference committee
- **2017-02-15** House acceded to request
- **2017-02-15** Conferees appointed by House
- **2017-02-16** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2017-02-23** Amended by conference committee
- **2017-02-23** Conference substitute printed 17105578D-H1
- **2017-02-23** Conference report agreed to by House (100-Y 0-N)
- **2017-03-07** Enrolled
- **2017-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-03-10** Signed by President
- **2017-03-13** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
- **2017-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 641 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a16f30a4-0e7d-43a0-bb73-7f6457277234`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).