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Bill 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 HB 1349, SB 180, SB 657, and SB 724. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2024 SB 400 Virginia SB 400 (2024)
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Virginia SB 400 (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 HB 1349, SB 180, SB 657, and SB 724.

Version chain

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

  1. CHAP0622 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Committee substitute printed 24107937D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102040D (committee substitute) — source
  4. SB400ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • House substitute agreed to by Senate (38-Y 2-N) — 382 (pass) · upper
  • Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Passage (95-Y 4-N) — 944 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — 70 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) — 150 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • R. Creigh Deeds — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102040D filing, introduction
  • 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
  • 2024-01-16 Assigned Rehab sub: ABC referral-committee
  • 2024-01-17 Impact statement from DPB (SB400)
  • 2024-01-19 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2024-01-22 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2024-01-23 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2024-01-24 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
  • 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
  • 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
  • 2024-02-14 Assigned GL sub: ABC/Gaming referral-committee
  • 2024-02-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) substitution
  • 2024-02-22 Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2024-02-22 Committee substitute printed 24107937D-H1 substitution
  • 2024-02-23 Impact statement from DPB (SB400H1)
  • 2024-02-26 Read second time reading-2
  • 2024-02-27 Passed by for the day
  • 2024-02-28 Committee substitute agreed to 24107937D-H1 substitution
  • 2024-02-28 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB400H1 substitution
  • 2024-02-28 Passed House with substitute (95-Y 4-N) passage
  • 2024-02-28 VOTE: Passage (95-Y 4-N) passage
  • 2024-03-01 House substitute agreed to by Senate (38-Y 2-N) substitution
  • 2024-03-01 Title replaced 24107937D-H1
  • 2024-03-06 Enrolled enrolled
  • 2024-03-06 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB400ER) passage
  • 2024-03-06 Signed by Speaker passage
  • 2024-03-07 Impact statement from DPB (SB400ER)
  • 2024-03-07 Signed by President passage
  • 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled
  • 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
  • 2024-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 622 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
  • 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0622)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d726d899-fed0-4196-8a18-373c71788758. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).