republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-1743.md

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Bill	Alcoholic beverage control; retail on-premises license for nonprofit cinema houses.	Creates a new retail on-premises wine and beer license for nonprofit historic cinema houses. The bill defines "historic cinema house" and sets out the privileges of the license and imposes a $200 annual state license tax and a $20 annual local license tax.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1743	Virginia HB 1743 (2017)	bill	Alcoholic Beverage Control Act Taxation	enacted	Nick Rush	4	17	6	2017-01-08	2017-02-23	openstates	ocd-bill/983b46c3-740b-4c3a-b8d0-bffc923e582a	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1743	6e2feea1e5ba875c1cfc6415e4f09dbe464a7e68cab56181b2470a3c362c3dd8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1743 (2017) — Alcoholic beverage control; retail on-premises license for nonprofit cinema houses.

Creates a new retail on-premises wine and beer license for nonprofit historic cinema houses. The bill defines "historic cinema house" and sets out the privileges of the license and imposes a $200 annual state license tax and a $20 annual local license tax.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0152) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1743ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Committee substitute printed 17104694D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100229D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 5–2 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House — 90–7 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 32–8 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — 12–3 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from General Laws with substitute — 20–2 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Nick Rush — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100229D introduction
• 2017-01-08 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2017-01-16 Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
• 2017-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-01-31 Committee substitute agreed to 17104694D-H1
• 2017-01-31 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1743H1
• 2017-02-01 Read third time and passed House (90-Y 7-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-02 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2017-02-14 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-16 Enrolled
• 2017-02-16 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-17 Signed by President
• 2017-02-17 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
• 2017-02-17 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
• 2017-02-23 Approved by Governor-Chapter 152 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/983b46c3-740b-4c3a-b8d0-bffc923e582a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).