republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2120.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Vulnerable adults; seizure of property used in connection with financial exploitation, etc.	Seizure of property used in connection with or derived from financial exploitation of vulnerable adults. Establishes a procedure for seizure of property used in connection with or derived from financial exploitation of vulnerable adults. The bill permits a guardian, adult proactive agent, or representative of the vulnerable adult to enforce such an action for good cause shown.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2120	Virginia HB 2120 (2025)	bill		enacted	Michelle Lopes Maldonado	8	51	12	2025-01-07	2025-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/c998b093-c6c1-4b8d-9228-ac793f890607	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2120	d43cec5e6779ce2dc16c74cf818d1c0b5d42771722a281108511840950c9fd91	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2120 (2025) — Vulnerable adults; seizure of property used in connection with financial exploitation, etc.

Seizure of property used in connection with or derived from financial exploitation of vulnerable adults. Establishes a procedure for seizure of property used in connection with or derived from financial exploitation of vulnerable adults. The bill permits a guardian, adult proactive agent, or representative of the vulnerable adult to enforce such an action for good cause shown.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Conference Report (committee substitute) — source
4. Conference Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Courts of Justice Subcommittee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
6. Courts of Justice Amendment (committee substitute) — source
7. Courts of Justice Substitute (committee substitute) — source
8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate substitute rejected by House (2-Y 94-N) — 2–94 (fail) · lower
• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Conference report agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate insisted on amendment (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Michelle Lopes Maldonado — primary (person)
• Amy J. Laufer — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101920D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-07 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-01-15 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2120)
• 2025-01-25 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2025-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-01-30 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2120)
• 2025-01-31 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-31 Committee substitute printed 25106195D-H1 substitution
• 2025-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2025-02-10 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-10 Committee substitute printed 25107087D-S1 substitution
• 2025-02-11 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-11 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-12 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2120)
• 2025-02-12 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-12 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-02-12 Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-12 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-12 Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-14 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-17 Senate substitute rejected by House (2-Y 94-N)
• 2025-02-18 Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2025-02-18 Senate requested conference committee referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 House acceded to request
• 2025-02-19 Conferees appointed by House
• 2025-02-19 Delegates: Maldonado, Hernandez, Kilgore
• 2025-02-20 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2025-02-20 Senators: Favola, Perry, Stuart
• 2025-02-21 Amended by conference committee
• 2025-02-21 Conference substitute printed 25107897D-H2
• 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-24 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2120)
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2120ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-10 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2120)
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 160 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0160)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c998b093-c6c1-4b8d-9228-ac793f890607. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).