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type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage control; banquet licenses for wineries and breweries."
description: "Increases from four to eight the number of banquet licenses a brewery or winery may obtain for events in any one-year period, provided that the event for which a banquet license is obtained is (i) at a place approved by the Board and (ii) conducted for the purposes of featuring and educating the consuming public about beer or wine products, respectively. The bill also specifically provides that such wine or beer manufacturer is limited to eight banquet licenses for such events per year without regard to the number of wineries or breweries, respectively, owned or operated by such manufacturer or by any parent, subsidiary, or company under common control with such manufacturer. The bill contains a technical amendment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2418"
citation: "Virginia HB 2418 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverage Control Act", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roxann L. Robinson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-19"
last_action: "2017-02-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/625214ab-b3bd-44a6-8429-38c5a134d91d"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2418"
source_hash: "00dbb6fcb00b55a5f11ee9e0028ec6dea984962e90ddae5d86fd40476890b8be"
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 2418 (2017) — Alcoholic beverage control; banquet licenses for wineries and breweries.
Increases from four to eight the number of banquet licenses a brewery or winery may obtain for events in any one-year period, provided that the event for which a banquet license is obtained is (i) at a place approved by the Board and (ii) conducted for the purposes of featuring and educating the consuming public about beer or wine products, respectively. The bill also specifically provides that such wine or beer manufacturer is limited to eight banquet licenses for such events per year without regard to the number of wineries or breweries, respectively, owned or operated by such manufacturer or by any parent, subsidiary, or company under common control with such manufacturer. The bill contains a technical amendment.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0159)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0159)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2418ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2418ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104703D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2418H1)
4. **House: Presented and ordered printed 17103734D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2418)
## Votes
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **141** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws with substitute — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **364** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **70** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Roxann L. Robinson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-19** Presented and ordered printed 17103734D `introduction`
- **2017-01-19** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** 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 17104703D-H1
- **2017-01-31** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2418H1
- **2017-02-01** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-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 159 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/625214ab-b3bd-44a6-8429-38c5a134d91d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).