republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/sb-1512.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Charitable gaming; conduct of games, special permits."
description: "Authorizes the Charitable Gaming Board to grant special permits to qualified organizations to replace (i) an approved game that falls on a legal holiday or (ii) an approved game that has been canceled by the qualified organization on account of severe weather conditions in the locality in which the approved game was scheduled to occur, provided that the qualified organization notifies the Department within 24 hours of the canceled approved game and the Department is satisfied that the severe weather conditions warranted cancellation. The special permit shall designate a date for the replacement game to occur within 90 days before or after the legal holiday or within 90 days after the date of the canceled approved game for which the special permit is requested. The bill also allows a qualified organization to reimburse volunteers who are nonmembers of the qualified organization up $50 per game session for reasonable travel expenses."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1512"
citation: "Virginia SB 1512 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Crimes and Offenses Generally", "Gambling", "Lotteries", "Etc."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Scott A. Surovell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-19"
last_action: "2017-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/888177ce-1dde-4be9-b8c5-bd49c4d35760"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1512"
source_hash: "a6af0b6cc9af1ac98ab49f32fa2d0df8b2b2b4fab3b17efd6e37384941165396"
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 1512 (2017) — Charitable gaming; conduct of games, special permits.

Authorizes the Charitable Gaming Board to grant special permits to qualified organizations to replace (i) an approved game that falls on a legal holiday or (ii) an approved game that has been canceled by the qualified organization on account of severe weather conditions in the locality in which the approved game was scheduled to occur, provided that the qualified organization notifies the Department within 24 hours of the canceled approved game and the Department is satisfied that the severe weather conditions warranted cancellation. The special permit shall designate a date for the replacement game to occur within 90 days before or after the legal holiday or within 90 days after the date of the canceled approved game for which the special permit is requested. The bill also allows a qualified organization to reimburse volunteers who are nonmembers of the qualified organization up $50 per game session for reasonable travel expenses.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0739)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0739)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1512ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1512ER)
3. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17105115D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1512S1)
4. **Senate: Presented and ordered printed 17103494D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1512)

## Votes

- Reported from General Laws with amendments — **17–4** (pass) · legislature
- House amendments agreed to by Senate — **38–2** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House with amendments — **89–6** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — **4–3** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute — **11–1** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **38–2** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Scott A. Surovell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-19** Presented and ordered printed 17103494D `introduction`
- **2017-01-19** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Reading of substitute waived
- **2017-02-07** Committee substitute agreed to 17105115D-S1
- **2017-02-07** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1512S1
- **2017-02-09** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-09** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** 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 amendments agreed to
- **2017-02-21** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2017-02-21** Passed House with amendments (89-Y 6-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 739 (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/888177ce-1dde-4be9-b8c5-bd49c4d35760`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).