---
type: "Bill"
title: "Restaurants; identifying markers on delivery/carry out food due to consumer-identified food allergy."
description: "Board of Health; restaurants; major food allergen labeling. Directs the Board of Health to promulgate regulations requiring all restaurants that alter or substitute food due to a consumer-identified food allergy or sensitivity to place an identifying marker on any food item prepared for delivery or carry out service that has been altered or substituted."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 183"
citation: "Virginia SB 183 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Angelia Williams Graves"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 35
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2026-01-09"
last_action: "2026-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c858996-1261-445d-9958-366ab4281119"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB183"
source_hash: "c0556c0a442efa7e15a79438a4f404a88eb10499665f51d2f064a4c281a27640"
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 183 (2026) — Restaurants; identifying markers on delivery/carry out food due to consumer-identified food allergy.

Board of Health; restaurants; major food allergen labeling. Directs the Board of Health to promulgate regulations requiring all restaurants that alter or substitute food due to a consumer-identified food allergy or sensitivity to place an identifying marker on any food item prepared for delivery or carry out service that has been altered or substituted.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1083681.PDF)
2. **Education and Health Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1104891.PDF)
3. **Health Subcommittee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1178069.HTML)
4. **Health and Human Services Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1181996.HTML)
5. **House Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1190870.HTML)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1201085.PDF)

## Votes

- Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) — **15–6** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) — **7–3** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — **9–5** (pass) · upper
- Passage R — **22–17** (pass) · upper
- Concur House Amendment R — **21–18** (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — **66–32** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Angelia Williams Graves — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100927D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-09** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-15** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB183)
- **2026-01-20** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-29** Senate committee offered
- **2026-01-29** Reported from Education and Health with substitute (9-Y 5-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-30** Rules suspended
- **2026-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (38-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-01-30** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-01-30** Committee substitute printed 26106417D-S1 `substitution`
- **2026-02-02** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-02** Committee substitute agreed to (Voice Vote) `substitution`
- **2026-02-02** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute (Voice Vote) `substitution`
- **2026-02-03** Read third time and passed Senate `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-06** Placed on Calendar
- **2026-02-06** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-06** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-06** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB183)
- **2026-02-16** Assigned sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 3-N)
- **2026-02-26** Reported from Health and Human Services with amendment(s) (15-Y 6-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-02** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-03** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-03** committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2026-03-03** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2026-03-03** Passed House with amendment (66-Y 32-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-05** House amendment agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N 0-A) `amendment-passage`
- **2026-03-11** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-11** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB183ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB183)
- **2026-03-11** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-14** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 939 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3c858996-1261-445d-9958-366ab4281119`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).