---
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: "SB 306"
citation: "Virginia SB 306 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverage Control Act"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ryan T. McDougle"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/579312c3-6724-4c9b-a4da-60d86d1bdd75"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB306"
source_hash: "bf14ebc23758206041c716f6cb535820498cd95249ca59cdddec703532ee960d"
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 306 (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. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB306ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB306ER)
2. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101340D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB306)
3. **Senate: Printed as engrossed 18101340D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB306E)

## Votes

- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws with amendment — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
- House amendment agreed to by Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ryan T. McDougle — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101340D `introduction`
- **2018-01-08** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-01-16** Reading of amendments waived
- **2018-01-16** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2018-01-16** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB306E
- **2018-01-16** Printed as engrossed 18101340D-E
- **2018-01-23** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-23** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-20** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2018-02-20** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2018-02-20** Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 234 (effective 1/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/579312c3-6724-4c9b-a4da-60d86d1bdd75`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).