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Bill Alcoholic beverage control; creates confectionery license. Creates a confectionery license, which authorizes the licensee to prepare and sell on the licensed premises for off-premises consumption confectionery that contains five percent or less alcohol by volume. The bill provides that any alcohol contained in such confectionery shall not be in liquid form at the time such confectionery is sold and requires the Board of Directors of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of the bill, which shall include a definition of the term "confectionery" and labeling requirements for such confectionery. This bill is identical to us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2018 SB 61 Virginia SB 61 (2018)
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Virginia SB 61 (2018) — Alcoholic beverage control; creates confectionery license.

Creates a confectionery license, which authorizes the licensee to prepare and sell on the licensed premises for off-premises consumption confectionery that contains five percent or less alcohol by volume. The bill provides that any alcohol contained in such confectionery shall not be in liquid form at the time such confectionery is sold and requires the Board of Directors of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of the bill, which shall include a definition of the term "confectionery" and labeling requirements for such confectionery. 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 (SB61ER) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100343D (committee substitute) — source
  3. Senate: Printed as engrossed 18100343D-E (committee substitute) — source
  4. Senate: Printed as reengrossed 18100343D-E2 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Passed Senate — 337 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments — 132 (pass) · legislature
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from General Laws — 220 (pass) · legislature
  • Engrossment reconsidered by Senate — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments — 114 (pass) · legislature
  • Motion to recommit to committee agreed to — 2119 (pass) · legislature
  • Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 1000 (pass) · legislature
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting — 80 (pass) · legislature
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 400 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

  • Barbara A. Favola — primary (person)
  • Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
  • Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-11-30 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100343D introduction
  • 2017-11-30 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
  • 2018-01-16 Read second time reading-2
  • 2018-01-16 Reading of amendments waived
  • 2018-01-16 Committee amendments agreed to
  • 2018-01-16 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB61E
  • 2018-01-16 Printed as engrossed 18100343D-E
  • 2018-01-17 Recommitted to Rehabilitation and Social Services
  • 2018-01-29 Reading of amendments waived
  • 2018-01-29 Committee amendments #3 and #4 agreed to
  • 2018-01-29 Reengrossed by Senate as amended SB61E2
  • 2018-01-29 Printed as reengrossed 18100343D-E2
  • 2018-01-31 Placed on Calendar
  • 2018-01-31 Read first time reading-1
  • 2018-01-31 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
  • 2018-02-05 Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3 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 173 (effective 7/1/18) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/879768de-cfba-4afb-88d5-21076c975708. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).