---
type: "Bill"
title: "Security freezes; fees for placing on a consumer's credit report."
description: "Reduces the maximum amount that a credit reporting agency may charge to place, remove, or lift a security freeze on a consumer's credit report from $10 to $5. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1027"
citation: "Virginia HB 1027 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Trade and Commerce"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Les R. Adams"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7f87334-a2d3-4c51-8f64-4c9672cbfbea"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1027"
source_hash: "20e3db7496a4eebc38be557c0afec3df502fdbfbdeb56fe2be4b1d4b53adc49d"
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 1027 (2018) — Security freezes; fees for placing on a consumer's credit report.

Reduces the maximum amount that a credit reporting agency may charge to place, remove, or lift a security freeze on a consumer's credit report from $10 to $5. This bill is identical to

## 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 (HB1027ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1027ER)
2. **House: Committee substitute printed 18106440D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1027H1)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100594D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1027)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — **21–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Les R. Adams — primary (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Bulova — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- John J. McGuire, III — cosponsor (person)
- Luke E. Torian — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew James — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100594D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Assigned C & L sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-10** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-12** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-12** Committee substitute agreed to 18106440D-H1
- **2018-02-12** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1027H1
- **2018-02-13** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-14** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `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 264 (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/d7f87334-a2d3-4c51-8f64-4c9672cbfbea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).