---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage special events licenses for museums."
description: "Allows annual mixed beverage special events licenses to be issued to localities for special events conducted on the premises of a museum for historic interpretation that is owned and operated by the locality."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 588"
citation: "Virginia SB 588 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adam P. Ebbin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/824c1286-9123-49c0-b7c8-c8aa14d7b8db"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB588"
source_hash: "eca74a8d38d8ea09164cfbac78c0f8a09235b1980b02b47ba74a8fb232046f57"
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 588 (2018) — Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage special events licenses for museums.

Allows annual mixed beverage special events licenses to be issued to localities for special events conducted on the premises of a museum for historic interpretation that is owned and operated by the locality.

## 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 (SB588ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB588ER)
2. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103717D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB588)
3. **Senate: Printed as engrossed 18103717D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB588E)

## Votes

- Rereferred from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources — **12–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House — **97–1** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **37–3** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Adam P. Ebbin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103717D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Rereferred to Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30** Reading of amendments waived
- **2018-01-30** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2018-01-30** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB588E
- **2018-01-30** Printed as engrossed 18103717D-E
- **2018-02-05** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-05** 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** Passed House (97-Y 1-N 1-A) `passage`
- **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
- **2018-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 179 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/824c1286-9123-49c0-b7c8-c8aa14d7b8db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).