republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1349.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage performing arts facility licenses."
description: "Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage performing arts facility licenses; on-and-off premises wine and beer licenses. Defines performing arts facility and sports facility and standardizes the eligibility criteria for annual mixed beverage performing arts facility licenses and on-and-off-premises wine and beer licenses for performing arts food concessionaires. Under current law, the eligibility criteria for such licenses varies by location and includes inconsistent ownership, lease, capacity, and seating requirements. The bill also removes provisions that allow the Board of Directors of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to grant annual mixed beverage motor sports facility licenses and motor car sporting event facility licenses and creates an annual mixed beverage sports facility license, which may be granted to persons operating a sports facility or food concessions at a sports facility and would authorize the licensee to sell mixed beverages during any event and immediately subsequent thereto to patrons within all seating areas, concourses, walkways, concession areas, and additional locations designated by the Board (i) in closed containers for off-premises consumption or (ii) in paper, plastic, or similar disposable containers or in single original metal cans for on-premises consumption. This bill is identical to SB 180, SB 400, SB 657, and SB 724."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1349"
citation: "Virginia HB 1349 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul E. Krizek"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-12"
last_action: "2024-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/238d3329-2fef-4555-b7e6-d668b08f74c4"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1349"
source_hash: "10d6f4268696b88b4029fa1730566604a93f5f0e36a61a8116dff215f8a70199"
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 HB 1349 (2024) — Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage performing arts facility licenses.

Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage performing arts facility licenses; on-and-off premises wine and beer licenses. Defines performing arts facility and sports facility and standardizes the eligibility criteria for annual mixed beverage performing arts facility licenses and on-and-off-premises wine and beer licenses for performing arts food concessionaires. Under current law, the eligibility criteria for such licenses varies by location and includes inconsistent ownership, lease, capacity, and seating requirements. The bill also removes provisions that allow the Board of Directors of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to grant annual mixed beverage motor sports facility licenses and motor car sporting event facility licenses and creates an annual mixed beverage sports facility license, which may be granted to persons operating a sports facility or food concessions at a sports facility and would authorize the licensee to sell mixed beverages during any event and immediately subsequent thereto to patrons within all seating areas, concourses, walkways, concession areas, and additional locations designated by the Board (i) in closed containers for off-premises consumption or (ii) in paper, plastic, or similar disposable containers or in single original metal cans for on-premises consumption. This bill is identical to SB 180, SB 400, SB 657, and SB 724.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0111** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0111)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24105900D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1349H1)
3. **HB1349ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1349ER)
4. **Presented and ordered printed 24105204D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1349)

## Votes

- Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N) — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (96-Y 3-N) — **95–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Paul E. Krizek — primary (person)
- Anne Ferrell Tata — cosponsor (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Jason S. Ballard — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-12** Presented and ordered printed 24105204D `introduction`
- **2024-01-12** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (HB1349)
- **2024-01-21** Assigned GL sub: ABC/Gaming `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-23** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2024-01-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2024-01-25** Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-25** Committee substitute printed 24105900D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-01-30** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-30** Committee substitute agreed to 24105900D-H1 `substitution`
- **2024-01-30** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1349H1 `substitution`
- **2024-01-31** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 3-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-31** VOTE: Passage (96-Y 3-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-01** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** Impact statement from DPB (HB1349H1)
- **2024-02-16** Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-20** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-26** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-26** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1349ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-26** Impact statement from DPB (HB1349ER)
- **2024-02-26** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 111 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-20** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0111)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/238d3329-2fef-4555-b7e6-d668b08f74c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).