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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Pawnbrokers; digital image of forms of identification."
+description: "Eliminates the requirement that pawnbrokers create a digital image of the form of identification used if the form of identification is a United States military issued identification or other form of identification included under 18 U.S.C. § 701. The bill requires the person involved in the transaction to present an alternate government-issued identification card bearing the photograph of such person or the pawnbroker to take a photograph of such person."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 206"
+citation: "Virginia HB 206 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Richard P. Bell"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2017-12-28"
+last_action: "2018-03-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d21c5fa4-5a47-4f63-9c89-9ed084da20d1"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB206"
+source_hash: "4b289ed93779205c822748f5fa5673d4ab8d9049f48229ab4b4b277e7721b09b"
+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 206 (2018) — Pawnbrokers; digital image of forms of identification.
+
+Eliminates the requirement that pawnbrokers create a digital image of the form of identification used if the form of identification is a United States military issued identification or other form of identification included under 18 U.S.C. § 701. The bill requires the person involved in the transaction to present an alternate government-issued identification card bearing the photograph of such person or the pawnbroker to take a photograph of such person.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB206ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB206ER)
+2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101010D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB206)
+3. **House: Printed as engrossed 18101010D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB206E)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from General Laws with amendment — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Richard P. Bell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-12-28** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101010D `introduction`
+- **2017-12-28** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-17** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-30** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2018-01-30** Engrossed by House as amended HB206E
+- **2018-01-30** Printed as engrossed 18101010D-E
+- **2018-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-02-01** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
+- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
+- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
+- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 217 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d21c5fa4-5a47-4f63-9c89-9ed084da20d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+