Files
2026-07-06 17:28:36 -04:00

4.4 KiB
Raw Permalink Blame History

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags
type title description jurisdiction legislature session identifier citation classification subjects status primary_sponsors version_count action_count vote_count first_action last_action source source_identifier source_url source_hash vintage source_snapshot retrieved_at confidence tags
Bill Alcoholic beverage control; availability of food when spirits served. Directs the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to promulgate regulations that require mixed beverage licensees to have food, cooked or prepared on the licensed premises, available for on-premises consumption until at least 30 minutes prior to an establishment's closing. The bill requires that such food be available in all areas of the licensed premises in which spirits are sold or served. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2017 SB 1216 Virginia SB 1216 (2017)
bill
Alcoholic Beverage Control Act
enacted
Bill R. DeSteph, Jr.
3 19 7 2017-01-10 2017-03-24 openstates ocd-bill/92b96227-5550-425d-bd4e-0b16c7e26b66 http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1216 5c3cd7059087d7c7193d1f3d6b44ba92c41b82148bd73d00c2a4c09215e1ed2d 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-va

Virginia SB 1216 (2017) — Alcoholic beverage control; availability of food when spirits served.

Directs the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to promulgate regulations that require mixed beverage licensees to have food, cooked or prepared on the licensed premises, available for on-premises consumption until at least 30 minutes prior to an establishment's closing. The bill requires that such food be available in all areas of the licensed premises in which spirits are sold or served.

Version chain

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

  1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0744) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1216ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101562D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Reported from General Laws with amendment — 201 (pass) · legislature
  • Read third time and passed Senate — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • House amendment agreed to by Senate — 391 (pass) · legislature
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — 130 (pass) · legislature
  • Passed House with amendment — 897 (pass) · legislature
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 61 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

  • Bill R. DeSteph, Jr. — primary (person)
  • Barry D. Knight — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101562D introduction
  • 2017-01-10 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
  • 2017-01-24 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2017-01-25 Passed by for the day
  • 2017-01-31 Placed on Calendar
  • 2017-01-31 Read first time reading-1
  • 2017-01-31 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
  • 2017-02-06 Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
  • 2017-02-20 Read second time reading-2
  • 2017-02-21 Read third time reading-3
  • 2017-02-21 Committee amendment agreed to
  • 2017-02-21 Engrossed by House as amended
  • 2017-02-21 Passed House with amendment (89-Y 7-N) passage
  • 2017-03-07 Enrolled
  • 2017-03-07 Signed by Speaker
  • 2017-03-10 Signed by President
  • 2017-03-13 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
  • 2017-03-13 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
  • 2017-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 744 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/92b96227-5550-425d-bd4e-0b16c7e26b66. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).