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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Restaurants; clarifies definition."
+description: "Restaurants; clarifies definition."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 1546"
+citation: "Virginia SB 1546 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ebbin"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 34
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2023-01-26"
+last_action: "2023-03-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09c5c029-f368-4182-96d1-8d214dd53977"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1546"
+source_hash: "f33b52bb56546ce4d8b3fbedf8cbbbb9539cfc48e789999056846131faa6f970"
+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 1546 (2023) — Restaurants; clarifies definition.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0342** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0342)
+2. **Committee substitute printed 23105992D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1546S1)
+3. **Presented and ordered printed 23105055D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1546)
+4. **SB1546ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1546ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ebbin — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-26** Unanimous consent to introduce `introduction`
+- **2023-01-26** Presented and ordered printed 23105055D `introduction`
+- **2023-01-26** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-27** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-30** Impact statement from DPB (SB1546)
+- **2023-01-31** Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2023-02-02** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-02** Committee substitute printed 23105992D-S1 `substitution`
+- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-06** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2023-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to `substitution`
+- **2023-02-06** Emergency clause added
+- **2023-02-06** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1546S1 `substitution`
+- **2023-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-06** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-07** Impact statement from DPB (SB1546S1)
+- **2023-02-13** Placed on Calendar
+- **2023-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-13** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-16** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-21** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-21** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-24** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-24** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1546ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-02-24** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-27** Impact statement from DPB (SB1546ER)
+- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
+- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 342 (effective 3/23/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-23** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0342)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/09c5c029-f368-4182-96d1-8d214dd53977`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+