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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage special events licenses for museums."
+description: "Allows annual mixed beverage special events licenses to be issued to localities for special events conducted on the premises of a museum for historic interpretation that is owned and operated by the locality."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 588"
+citation: "Virginia SB 588 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Adam P. Ebbin"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2018-01-09"
+last_action: "2018-03-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/824c1286-9123-49c0-b7c8-c8aa14d7b8db"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB588"
+source_hash: "eca74a8d38d8ea09164cfbac78c0f8a09235b1980b02b47ba74a8fb232046f57"
+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 SB 588 (2018) — Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage special events licenses for museums.
+
+Allows annual mixed beverage special events licenses to be issued to localities for special events conducted on the premises of a museum for historic interpretation that is owned and operated by the locality.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB588ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB588ER)
+2. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103717D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB588)
+3. **Senate: Printed as engrossed 18103717D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB588E)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Rereferred from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — **12–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from General Laws — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed House — **97–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed Senate — **37–3** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Adam P. Ebbin — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103717D `introduction`
+- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-18** Rereferred to Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-30** Reading of amendments waived
+- **2018-01-30** Committee amendments agreed to
+- **2018-01-30** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB588E
+- **2018-01-30** Printed as engrossed 18103717D-E
+- **2018-02-05** Placed on Calendar
+- **2018-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-20** Passed House (97-Y 1-N 1-A) `passage`
+- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-22** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
+- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
+- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
+- **2018-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 179 (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/824c1286-9123-49c0-b7c8-c8aa14d7b8db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+