republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2018/hb-63.md

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Bill	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.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2018	HB 63	Virginia HB 63 (2018)	bill		enacted	Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr.	2	15	6	2017-12-04	2018-03-09	openstates	ocd-bill/53318cd8-1bd8-4cfb-ad85-fef8716f1f3a	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB63	07da3d5503b1f232ce5c303715135e7df22638e74a81ae22f0e28851c89c2f01	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101437D (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/53318cd8-1bd8-4cfb-ad85-fef8716f1f3a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).