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type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage control; wine wholesaler, primary area of responsibility."
description: "Removes the provision that describes the \"primary area of responsibility\" of a wine wholesaler that enters into an agreement with a winery to sell its wine in a certain sales territory. The bill provides that its provisions shall not render valid the provision of any contract that was entered into prior to July 1, 2018, and that was void under the law in effect prior to July 1, 2018. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 174"
citation: "Virginia SB 174 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverage Control Act", "Contracts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William M. Stanley, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-12-28"
last_action: "2018-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c73d9a72-5f85-435c-9d75-75393fbec1fc"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB174"
source_hash: "8d0b5ee2660bc18d5635ad18402142e1df88ff0b75cdaa65cdbda148bfffdd16"
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 174 (2018) — Alcoholic beverage control; wine wholesaler, primary area of responsibility.
Removes the provision that describes the "primary area of responsibility" of a wine wholesaler that enters into an agreement with a winery to sell its wine in a certain sales territory. The bill provides that its provisions shall not render valid the provision of any contract that was entered into prior to July 1, 2018, and that was void under the law in effect prior to July 1, 2018. This bill is identical to
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB174ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB174ER)
2. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101253D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB174)
3. **Senate: Printed as engrossed 18101253D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB174E)
## Votes
- Reported from General Laws — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendment — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **1000** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- William M. Stanley, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-12-28** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101253D `introduction`
- **2017-12-28** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-01-16** Reading of amendment waived
- **2018-01-16** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2018-01-16** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB174E
- **2018-01-16** Printed as engrossed 18101253D-E
- **2018-01-23** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-23** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-20** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
- **2018-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 169 (effective - see bill) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c73d9a72-5f85-435c-9d75-75393fbec1fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).