---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage control; new license for certain commercial lifestyle centers."
description: "Defines \"commercial lifestyle center\" and creates a new nonretail license for commercial lifestyle centers. The bill sets out the privileges of the license and imposes a $300 annual state tax and a $60 annual local tax on the license. The bill contains technical amendments. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1987"
citation: "Virginia HB 1987 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverage Control Act", "Hotels", "Restaurants", "Summer Camps", "and Campgrounds"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas A. \"Tag\" Greason"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-02-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1bf64ace-e2d0-4fcd-83ac-249d7986f0e7"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1987"
source_hash: "a8c8597f8531552b3c49e08c881a7f92175ceacfb18e45e91e6d67b4863e9ee6"
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 1987 (2017) — Alcoholic beverage control; new license for certain commercial lifestyle centers.

Defines "commercial lifestyle center" and creates a new nonretail license for commercial lifestyle centers. The bill sets out the privileges of the license and imposes a $300 annual state tax and a $60 annual local tax on the license. The bill contains technical amendments. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0157)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0157)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1987ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1987ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104563D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1987H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103896D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1987)

## Votes

- Passed Senate — **33–7** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **30–9** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **12–2** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **39–1** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **82–14** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws with substitute — **18–2** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Thomas A. "Tag" Greason — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103896D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 17104563D-H1
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1987H1
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House (82-Y 14-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** 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 157 (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/1bf64ace-e2d0-4fcd-83ac-249d7986f0e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).