---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage control; creates an annual mixed beverage performing arts facility license."
description: "Creates an annual mixed beverage performing arts facility license, which allows the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption at any multipurpose theater that is located in the historical district of the Town of Bridgewater, is owned and operated by a governmental entity, and has a total capacity in excess of 100 patrons."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1657"
citation: "Virginia HB 1657 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverage Control Act", "Arts and Humanities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Steven Landes"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-11-29"
last_action: "2019-02-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/22d989d3-5f48-49db-b01b-2c1715ae918c"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1657"
source_hash: "5812bbc73a66de81392111cc2562f44018622f076a234585b303c9ce2fd64df4"
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 1657 (2019) — Alcoholic beverage control; creates an annual mixed beverage performing arts facility license.

Creates an annual mixed beverage performing arts facility license, which allows the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption at any multipurpose theater that is located in the historical district of the Town of Bridgewater, is owned and operated by a governmental entity, and has a total capacity in excess of 100 patrons.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0174)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0174)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1657ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1657ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100580D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1657)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House — **89–6** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws — **21–1** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **13–2** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **34–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- R. Steven Landes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-11-29** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100580D `introduction`
- **2018-11-29** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-08** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-23** Read third time and passed House (89-Y 6-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-24** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** Enrolled
- **2019-02-14** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
- **2019-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2019
- **2019-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-02-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 174 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/22d989d3-5f48-49db-b01b-2c1715ae918c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).