---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mobile food units; licenses."
description: "Directs the Department of Health to issue a license in the form of a sticker to a restaurant that is a mobile food unit that meets the requirements for licensure and requires the licensee to prominently display the license on the mobile food unit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1625"
citation: "Virginia HB 1625 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Hotels", "Restaurants", "Summer Camps", "and Campgrounds"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roxann L. Robinson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-03-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc875e9a-7b7f-49c7-b49b-4003986ff405"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1625"
source_hash: "4246df1ab91c649b018a2c18622e1d9ece6716c16a416c02df1507421c62c836"
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 1625 (2017) — Mobile food units; licenses.

Directs the Department of Health to issue a license in the form of a sticker to a restaurant that is a mobile food unit that meets the requirements for licensure and requires the licensee to prominently display the license on the mobile food unit.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0281)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0281)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1625ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1625ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101962D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1625)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendment — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health with amendment — **15–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Roxann L. Robinson — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101962D `introduction`
- **2017-01-04** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-12** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-20** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-24** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-25** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-06** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-13** Reading of amendment waived
- **2017-02-13** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-13** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2017-02-15** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-15** Senate amendment agreed to by House (100-Y 0-N)
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled
- **2017-02-17** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-20** Signed by President
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-03** Approved by Governor-Chapter 281 (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/bc875e9a-7b7f-49c7-b49b-4003986ff405`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).