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| Bill | Aged or incapacitated adults; financial exploitation, authority to refuse transactions. | Authorizes financial institution staff to refuse to execute a transaction, to delay a transaction, or to refuse to disburse funds, regardless of whether such staff has reported suspected financial exploitation, if the financial institution staff (i) believes in good faith that the transaction or disbursement may involve, facilitate, result in, or contribute to the financial exploitation of an aged or incapacitated adult or (ii) makes, or has actual knowledge that another person has made, a report to the local department of social services or adult protective services hotline stating a good faith belief that the transaction or disbursement may involve, facilitate, result in, or contribute to the financial exploitation of an aged or incapacitated adult. The measure authorizes financial institution staff to continue to refuse to execute a transaction, delay a transaction, or refuse to disburse funds for not more than 30 business days after the date such transaction or disbursement was initially requested on the basis of such a good faith belief, unless otherwise ordered by a court. The measure authorizes such staff, to the extent permitted by law, to report any information or records relevant to an investigation. A financial institution and its staff are immune from civil or criminal liability, absent gross negligence or willful misconduct, for refusing to execute a transaction, delaying a transaction, or refusing to disburse funds pursuant to this measure. This bill is identical to | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2019 | HB 1987 | Virginia HB 1987 (2019) |
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Virginia HB 1987 (2019) — Aged or incapacitated adults; financial exploitation, authority to refuse transactions.
Authorizes financial institution staff to refuse to execute a transaction, to delay a transaction, or to refuse to disburse funds, regardless of whether such staff has reported suspected financial exploitation, if the financial institution staff (i) believes in good faith that the transaction or disbursement may involve, facilitate, result in, or contribute to the financial exploitation of an aged or incapacitated adult or (ii) makes, or has actual knowledge that another person has made, a report to the local department of social services or adult protective services hotline stating a good faith belief that the transaction or disbursement may involve, facilitate, result in, or contribute to the financial exploitation of an aged or incapacitated adult. The measure authorizes financial institution staff to continue to refuse to execute a transaction, delay a transaction, or refuse to disburse funds for not more than 30 business days after the date such transaction or disbursement was initially requested on the basis of such a good faith belief, unless otherwise ordered by a court. The measure authorizes such staff, to the extent permitted by law, to report any information or records relevant to an investigation. A financial institution and its staff are immune from civil or criminal liability, absent gross negligence or willful misconduct, for refusing to execute a transaction, delaying a transaction, or refusing to disburse funds pursuant to this measure. This bill is identical to
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420) (committee substitute) — source
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1987ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Committee substitute printed 19104608D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- House: Conference substitute printed 19107620D-H2 (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102607D (committee substitute) — source
- Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106848D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 96–0 (pass) · lower
- Senate insisted on substitute — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Rereferred from Commerce and Labor — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- Conference report agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with substitute — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Conference report agreed to by House — 97–1 (pass) · lower
- Senate substitute rejected by House 19106848D-S1 — 0–99 (fail) · lower
Sponsors
- David J. Toscano — primary (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
- Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Robert B. Bell — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102607D
introduction - 2019-01-07 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
referral-committee - 2019-01-10 Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #2
referral-committee - 2019-01-21 Read first time
reading-1 - 2019-01-22 Read second time
reading-2 - 2019-01-22 Committee substitute agreed to 19104608D-H1
- 2019-01-22 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1987H1
- 2019-01-23 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2019-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2019-01-24 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
referral-committee - 2019-02-11 Rereferred to Rehabilitation and Social Services
referral-committee - 2019-02-19 Read third time
reading-3 - 2019-02-19 Reading of substitute waived
- 2019-02-19 Committee substitute agreed to 19106848D-S1
- 2019-02-19 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1987S1
- 2019-02-20 Senate substitute rejected by House 19106848D-S1 (0-Y 99-N)
- 2019-02-21 Senate requested conference committee
- 2019-02-21 House acceded to request
- 2019-02-21 Conferees appointed by House
- 2019-02-21 Conferees appointed by Senate
- 2019-02-22 Conferees reappointed by Senate
- 2019-02-22 Amended by conference committee
- 2019-02-22 Conference substitute printed 19107620D-H2
- 2019-02-22 Conference report agreed to by House (97-Y 1-N)
- 2019-03-07 Enrolled
- 2019-03-07 Signed by Speaker
- 2019-03-09 Signed by President
- 2019-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2019
- 2019-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 2019-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 420 (effective 7/1/19)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2ee5dce6-c5e5-4eeb-a526-0c0efb01912b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).