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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Alcoholic beverage control; delivery privileges of persons granted a wine and beer license."
+description: "Provides that notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, persons granted a wine and beer license may deliver such wine or beer in closed containers for off-premises consumption (i) to a person's vehicle if located in a designated parking area of the retailer's premises where such person has electronically ordered wine or beer in advance of the delivery or (ii) if the licensee holds a delivery permit issued by the ABC Board, to such other locations as may be permitted by Board regulation. The bill contains technical amendments."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 1801"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1801 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverage Control Act"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barry D. Knight"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2017-01-09"
+last_action: "2017-02-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b28d2b37-ff91-42d0-8b8d-ebb6069e8e6b"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1801"
+source_hash: "c0dfa2e5cdf47f7cb7044f748ff4204c82ce7c79af43261762f90e65929bc9e9"
+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 1801 (2017) — Alcoholic beverage control; delivery privileges of persons granted a wine and beer license.
+
+Provides that notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, persons granted a wine and beer license may deliver such wine or beer in closed containers for off-premises consumption (i) to a person's vehicle if located in a designated parking area of the retailer's premises where such person has electronically ordered wine or beer in advance of the delivery or (ii) if the licensee holds a delivery permit issued by the ABC Board, to such other locations as may be permitted by Board regulation. The bill contains technical amendments.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0154)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0154)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1801ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1801ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102848D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1801)
+4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17102848D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1801E)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from General Laws with amendments — **17–5** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House — **87–11** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **5–1** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barry D. Knight — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102848D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-09** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-16** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-01-24** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-01-24** Committee amendments agreed to
+- **2017-01-24** Engrossed by House as amended HB1801E
+- **2017-01-24** Printed as engrossed 17102848D-E
+- **2017-01-25** Read third time and passed House (87-Y 11-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-01-26** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2017-01-26** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-16** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-16** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
+- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
+- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
+- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 154 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b28d2b37-ff91-42d0-8b8d-ebb6069e8e6b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+