---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage control; sales by brewery on licensed premises."
description: "Requires that when a brewery licensee sells at retail the brands of beer that the brewery owns, at least 20 percent of the volume of beer sold for on-premises consumption in any calendar year shall be manufactured on the licensed premises. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2019, with a further delayed effective date of April 30, 2022, for a brewery that has entered into (i) a performance agreement with the Commonwealth of Virginia Development Opportunity Fund on or about April 20, 2016; (ii) a performance agreement entitled \"Regarding Operation Period Economic Development Grant\" on or about April 20, 2016; and (iii) a commercial lease agreement on or about April 14, 2017. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 422"
citation: "Virginia HB 422 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverage Control Act"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David L. Bulova"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-01-05"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d2ae376-3990-438a-98ff-4b387add4577"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB422"
source_hash: "6f6aad0275459856de9abd6a24c32b82be3786dc2ef05862e1f2ee4590b7be32"
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 422 (2018) — Alcoholic beverage control; sales by brewery on licensed premises.

Requires that when a brewery licensee sells at retail the brands of beer that the brewery owns, at least 20 percent of the volume of beer sold for on-premises consumption in any calendar year shall be manufactured on the licensed premises. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2019, with a further delayed effective date of April 30, 2022, for a brewery that has entered into (i) a performance agreement with the Commonwealth of Virginia Development Opportunity Fund on or about April 20, 2016; (ii) a performance agreement entitled "Regarding Operation Period Economic Development Grant" on or about April 20, 2016; and (iii) a commercial lease agreement on or about April 14, 2017. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB422ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB422ER)
2. **House: Committee substitute printed 18105125D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB422H1)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101343D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB422)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 18105125D-EH1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB422EH1)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws with substitute — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **8–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- David L. Bulova — primary (person)
- Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
- Roxann L. Robinson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101343D `introduction`
- **2018-01-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-17** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-02** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-02** Committee substitute agreed to 18105125D-H1
- **2018-02-02** Amendment by Delegate Habeeb agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2018-02-02** Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendment HB422EH1
- **2018-02-02** Printed as engrossed 18105125D-EH1
- **2018-02-05** Read third time and passed House (95-Y 0-N 1-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-06** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
- **2018-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 63 (effective 1/1/19 - see bill) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d2ae376-3990-438a-98ff-4b387add4577`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).