---
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).