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| Bill | Alcoholic beverage control; local special events license, limitations on events, etc. | Alcoholic beverage control; local special events license; limitations on events during public health emergency. Provides that no limitation on the number of special events that may be held by a local special events licensee shall be imposed during the effective dates of any rule, regulation, or order that is issued by the Governor or State Health Commissioner to meet a public health emergency and that effectively reduces allowable restaurant seating capacity. Under current law, local special events licensees are limited to holding 16 special events per year. The bill contains an emergency clause. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2020specialI | SB 5036 | Virginia SB 5036 (2020specialI) |
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enacted | 3 | 32 | 5 | 2020-08-14 | 2020-10-28 | openstates | ocd-bill/29781410-e9b0-493b-b53b-0cdded46d0cb | https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?202+sum+SB5036 | 1e0153ca82108b0995df38e11239b6756b523005315ff8a402cfd8e7d8eed558 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Virginia SB 5036 (2020specialI) — Alcoholic beverage control; local special events license, limitations on events, etc.
Alcoholic beverage control; local special events license; limitations on events during public health emergency. Provides that no limitation on the number of special events that may be held by a local special events licensee shall be imposed during the effective dates of any rule, regulation, or order that is issued by the Governor or State Health Commissioner to meet a public health emergency and that effectively reduces allowable restaurant seating capacity. Under current law, local special events licensees are limited to holding 16 special events per year. The bill contains an emergency clause.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0034) (committee substitute) — source
- Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB5036ER) (committee substitute) — source
- Impact statement from DPB (SB5036) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (94-Y 0-N) — 93–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws with amendment (19-Y 2-N) — 19–2 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- House amendment agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-08-14 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 08/18/20 20200732D
introduction - 2020-08-14 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
referral-committee - 2020-08-18 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2020-08-19 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-08-20 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2020-08-23 Impact statement from DPB (SB5036)
- 2020-08-26 Read third time and passed Senate (36-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2020-09-17 Placed on Calendar
- 2020-09-17 Read first time
reading-1 - 2020-09-17 Referred to Committee on General Laws
referral-committee - 2020-09-21 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 2020-09-21 Reported from General Laws with amendment (19-Y 2-N)
committee-passage - 2020-09-24 Read second time
reading-2 - 2020-09-25 Passed by for the day
- 2020-09-29 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-09-29 Passed by for the day
- 2020-10-02 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-10-02 Passed by for the day
- 2020-10-07 Read third time
reading-3 - 2020-10-07 Committee amendment agreed to
- 2020-10-07 Emergency clause added
- 2020-10-07 Engrossed by House as amended
- 2020-10-07 Passed House with amendment (94-Y 0-N)
passage - 2020-10-07 VOTE: Passage (94-Y 0-N)
- 2020-10-07 House amendment agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N)
- 2020-10-14 Enrolled
- 2020-10-14 Signed by President
- 2020-10-14 Signed by Speaker
- 2020-10-15 Impact statement from DPB (SB5036ER)
- 2020-10-21 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on October 21, 2020
- 2020-10-21 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., October 28, 2020
- 2020-10-28 Approved by Governor-Chapter 34 (effective 10/28/20)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/29781410-e9b0-493b-b53b-0cdded46d0cb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).