---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage control; retail on-premises license for nonprofit cinema houses."
description: "Creates a new retail on-premises wine and beer license for nonprofit historic cinema houses. The bill defines \"historic cinema house\" and sets out the privileges of the license and imposes a $200 annual state license tax and a $20 annual local license tax."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1743"
citation: "Virginia HB 1743 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverage Control Act", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nick Rush"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-08"
last_action: "2017-02-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/983b46c3-740b-4c3a-b8d0-bffc923e582a"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1743"
source_hash: "6e2feea1e5ba875c1cfc6415e4f09dbe464a7e68cab56181b2470a3c362c3dd8"
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 1743 (2017) — Alcoholic beverage control; retail on-premises license for nonprofit cinema houses.

Creates a new retail on-premises wine and beer license for nonprofit historic cinema houses. The bill defines "historic cinema house" and sets out the privileges of the license and imposes a $200 annual state license tax and a $20 annual local license tax.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0152)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0152)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1743ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1743ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104694D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1743H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100229D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1743)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **5–2** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **90–7** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **32–8** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **12–3** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws with substitute — **20–2** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Nick Rush — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100229D `introduction`
- **2017-01-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-31** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-31** Committee substitute agreed to 17104694D-H1
- **2017-01-31** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1743H1
- **2017-02-01** Read third time and passed House (90-Y 7-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-02** 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 152 (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/983b46c3-740b-4c3a-b8d0-bffc923e582a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).