---
type: "Bill"
title: "Private security; compliance agent experience, surety bond."
description: "Removes the requirement that a compliance agent for a private security services business have either five years of experience or three years of managerial or supervisory experience in a private security services business, a state or local law-enforcement agency, or a related field. The bill also removes the option for a private security services business or a private security services training school to be covered by a bond in lieu of liability insurance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 63"
citation: "Virginia HB 63 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hyland F. \"Buddy\" Fowler, Jr."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-12-04"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53318cd8-1bd8-4cfb-ad85-fef8716f1f3a"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB63"
source_hash: "07da3d5503b1f232ce5c303715135e7df22638e74a81ae22f0e28851c89c2f01"
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 63 (2018) — Private security; compliance agent experience, surety bond.

Removes the requirement that a compliance agent for a private security services business have either five years of experience or three years of managerial or supervisory experience in a private security services business, a state or local law-enforcement agency, or a related field. The bill also removes the option for a private security services business or a private security services training school to be covered by a bond in lieu of liability insurance.

## 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 (HB63ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB63ER)
2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101437D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB63)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **98–1** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-12-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101437D `introduction`
- **2017-12-04** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-19** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-31** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-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 214 (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/53318cd8-1bd8-4cfb-ad85-fef8716f1f3a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).