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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 400, and SB 724. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2024 | SB 657 | Virginia SB 657 (2024) |
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Virginia SB 657 (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 400, and SB 724.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0255 (committee substitute) — source
- Committee substitute printed 24107840D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- Presented and ordered printed 24105205D (committee substitute) — source
- SB657ER (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (91-Y 5-N) — 90–5 (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) — 38–2 (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N) — 39–1 (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) — 38–2 (pass) · upper
- House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N) — 0–39 (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
- Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (93-Y 4-N) — 92–4 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Bryce E. Reeves — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2024-01-15 Presented and ordered printed 24105205D
introduction - 2024-01-15 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
referral-committee - 2024-01-16 Assigned Rehab sub: ABC
referral-committee - 2024-01-18 Impact statement from DPB (SB657)
- 2024-01-19 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
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 (38-Y 2-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2024-01-24 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N)
- 2024-01-24 Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N)
passage - 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 24107840D-H1
substitution - 2024-02-23 Impact statement from DPB (SB657H1)
- 2024-02-26 Read second time
reading-2 - 2024-02-27 Read third time
reading-3 - 2024-02-27 Committee substitute agreed to 24107840D-H1
substitution - 2024-02-27 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB657H1
substitution - 2024-02-27 Passed House with substitute (91-Y 5-N)
passage - 2024-02-27 VOTE: Passage (91-Y 5-N)
passage - 2024-02-29 House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N)
- 2024-03-01 House insisted on substitute
substitution - 2024-03-01 House requested conference committee
referral-committee - 2024-03-04 Passed by for the day
- 2024-03-05 Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
- 2024-03-05 Conferees appointed by Senate
- 2024-03-05 Senators: Reeves, VanValkenburg, Rouse
- 2024-03-06 Conferees appointed by House
- 2024-03-06 Delegates: Cole, Feggans, Austin
- 2024-03-06 Amended by conference committee
- 2024-03-06 Conference report agreed to by House (93-Y 4-N)
committee-passage-favorable - 2024-03-06 VOTE: Adoption (93-Y 4-N)
- 2024-03-07 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
committee-passage-favorable - 2024-03-25 Enrolled
enrolled - 2024-03-25 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB657ER)
passage - 2024-03-25 Signed by President
passage - 2024-03-26 Signed by Speaker
passage - 2024-03-27 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024
enrolled - 2024-03-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
executive-receipt - 2024-03-28 Approved by Governor-Chapter 255 (effective 7/1/24)
executive-signature - 2024-03-28 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0255)
- 2024-04-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB657ER)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c347bd96-3c93-4d46-b14c-888270ae79c1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).