---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage control; winery and farm winery licenses, requirements and privileges."
description: "Alcoholic beverage control; winery and farm winery licenses, requirements and privileges."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 983"
citation: "Virginia SB 983 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mason"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-01-06"
last_action: "2023-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73133564-54a2-4226-a91c-001e4d5285ae"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB983"
source_hash: "be034e8349d2cfdd4d47d0eb2a8e56dc22366ea4cb882a728b8d40632f5904c6"
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 983 (2023) — Alcoholic beverage control; winery and farm winery licenses, requirements and privileges.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0731** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0731)
2. **Committee substitute printed 23104953D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB983S1)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101333D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB983)
4. **SB983ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB983ER)

## Votes

- House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mason — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101333D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-06** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-27** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-01-27** Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-27** Committee substitute printed 23104953D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-31** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-31** Reading of substitute waived
- **2023-01-31** Committee substitute agreed to 23104953D-S1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-31** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB983S1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-01** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-07** Impact statement from DPB (SB983S1)
- **2023-02-10** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-10** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-10** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-13** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-16** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-02-16** Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-21** Committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-21** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2023-02-21** Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-21** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-22** House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB983ER) `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-03-09** Impact statement from DPB (SB983ER)
- **2023-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 731 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-27** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0731)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/73133564-54a2-4226-a91c-001e4d5285ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).