---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pawning goods; unexpired government-issued identification card required."
description: "Requires the government-issued identification card presented by a person pawning, pledging, or selling goods or selling precious metals or gems to be unexpired and to bear the person's current legal address. If the government-issued identification card does not bear the current legal address, the bill requires the pawner or seller to present other documentation to verify his current legal address."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1774"
citation: "Virginia HB 1774 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael P. Mullin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2018-12-26"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a988ee33-e224-47f6-aab7-04d1c46b6288"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1774"
source_hash: "07255ef2165a13a6354a4e0026dc4d5548b81fdb3317ef7f0b5cb2a38a3eed9b"
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 1774 (2019) — Pawning goods; unexpired government-issued identification card required.

Requires the government-issued identification card presented by a person pawning, pledging, or selling goods or selling precious metals or gems to be unexpired and to bear the person's current legal address. If the government-issued identification card does not bear the current legal address, the bill requires the pawner or seller to present other documentation to verify his current legal address.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0457)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1774ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1774ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101623D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1774)
4. **Senate amendments engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB1774ASE)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with amendment — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — **93–1** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Michael P. Mullin — primary (person)
- Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-26** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101623D `introduction`
- **2018-12-26** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-14** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-23** Read third time and passed House (93-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-24** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** Reading of amendment waived
- **2019-02-14** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2019-02-14** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2019-02-18** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-02-18** Senate amendment agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 457 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a988ee33-e224-47f6-aab7-04d1c46b6288`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).