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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Pawnbrokers; allowable late fees."
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description: "Provides that a pawnbroker may charge a late fee, not to exceed 10 percent of the amount loaned, for each item that is not claimed by the pledged due date as long as the pawner is notified of the fee on the pawn ticket."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2018"
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identifier: "HB 26"
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citation: "Virginia HB 26 (2018)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Richard P. Bell"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 18
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2017-11-28"
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last_action: "2018-03-09"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e62d2f2-e4d4-4d24-be36-2775580b5079"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB26"
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source_hash: "83f0c707541c9ee4626124bc7c2dfe0450954393a6c54cae2904147d190717ec"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 26 (2018) — Pawnbrokers; allowable late fees.
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Provides that a pawnbroker may charge a late fee, not to exceed 10 percent of the amount loaned, for each item that is not claimed by the pledged due date as long as the pawner is notified of the fee on the pawn ticket.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB26ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB26ER)
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2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101012D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB26)
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3. **House: Printed as engrossed 18101012D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB26E)
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## Votes
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- Read third time and passed House — **86–9** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from General Laws with amendment — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **14–1** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed Senate — **37–3** (pass) · legislature
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Richard P. Bell — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-11-28** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101012D `introduction`
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- **2017-11-28** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
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- **2018-01-17** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
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- **2018-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2018-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2018-01-30** Committee amendment agreed to
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- **2018-01-30** Engrossed by House as amended HB26E
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- **2018-01-30** Printed as engrossed 18101012D-E
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- **2018-01-31** Read third time and passed House (86-Y 9-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2018-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2018-02-01** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
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- **2018-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
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- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
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- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
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- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
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- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
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- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 212 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6e62d2f2-e4d4-4d24-be36-2775580b5079`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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