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Bill Alcoholic beverage control; happy hour advertising. Expands the ability of retail on-premises licensees to advertise happy hours by allowing them to advertise the prices of featured alcoholic beverages and to use creative marketing techniques, provided that such techniques do not tend to induce overconsumption or consumption by minors. This bill is identical to us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2019 HB 2073 Virginia HB 2073 (2019)
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Alcoholic Beverage Control Act
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Virginia HB 2073 (2019) — Alcoholic beverage control; happy hour advertising.

Expands the ability of retail on-premises licensees to advertise happy hours by allowing them to advertise the prices of featured alcoholic beverages and to use creative marketing techniques, provided that such techniques do not tend to induce overconsumption or consumption by minors. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

  1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0029) (committee substitute) — source
  2. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
  3. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2073ER) (committee substitute) — source
  4. House: Committee substitute printed 19104490D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
  5. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102576D (committee substitute) — source
  6. Senate amendments engrossed (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendment — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Read third time and passed House — 904 (pass) · lower
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 80 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from General Laws with substitute — 211 (pass) · lower
  • Passed Senate with amendment — 373 (pass) · upper
  • Senate amendment agreed to by House — 953 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • John J. Bell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102576D introduction
  • 2019-01-07 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
  • 2019-01-14 Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3 referral-committee
  • 2019-01-21 Read first time reading-1
  • 2019-01-22 Read second time reading-2
  • 2019-01-22 Committee substitute agreed to 19104490D-H1
  • 2019-01-22 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2073H1
  • 2019-01-23 Read third time and passed House (90-Y 4-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2019-01-24 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2019-01-24 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
  • 2019-02-04 Read second time reading-2
  • 2019-02-05 Read third time reading-3
  • 2019-02-05 Reading of amendment waived
  • 2019-02-05 Committee amendment agreed to
  • 2019-02-05 Engrossed by Senate as amended
  • 2019-02-07 Placed on Calendar
  • 2019-02-07 Senate amendment agreed to by House (95-Y 3-N)
  • 2019-02-11 Enrolled
  • 2019-02-11 Signed by Speaker
  • 2019-02-11 Signed by President
  • 2019-02-12 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 12, 2019
  • 2019-02-12 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 19, 2019
  • 2019-02-15 Approved by Governor-Chapter 29 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eac9b9aa-b6d5-4c28-9650-3b4303b3ab7f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).