---
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: "SB 1391"
citation: "Virginia SB 1391 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverage Control Act", "Hotels", "Restaurants", "Summer Camps", "and Campgrounds"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill R. DeSteph, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29684d38-57f4-4169-86df-8e88e2b11fc4"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1391"
source_hash: "72d1e78400996772df25d1ed2a22d4ed57cfb608ae4c8ce19e60b1704dbc3054"
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 1391 (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 (CHAP0492)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0492)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1391ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1391ER)
3. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104565D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1391S1)
4. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103906D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1391)

## Votes

- Reported from Finance — **14–1** (pass) · legislature
- VOTE: PASSAGE — **81–13** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **19–3** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **28–12** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute — **12–3** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Bill R. DeSteph, Jr. — primary (person)
- Barry D. Knight — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103906D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-27** Substitute bill reprinted 17104565D-S1
- **2017-01-27** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-03** Reading of substitute waived
- **2017-02-03** Committee substitute agreed to 17104565D-S1
- **2017-02-03** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1391S1
- **2017-02-06** Passed by for the day
- **2017-02-09** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-09** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** VOTE: AGREE TO MOTION (97-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
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 492 (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/29684d38-57f4-4169-86df-8e88e2b11fc4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).