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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.

  1. CHAP0255 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Committee substitute printed 24107840D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Presented and ordered printed 24105205D (committee substitute) — source
  4. SB657ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • VOTE: Passage (91-Y 5-N) — 905 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) — 382 (pass) · upper
  • Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N) — 391 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) — 382 (pass) · upper
  • House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N) — 039 (fail) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — 70 (pass) · lower
  • Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower
  • VOTE: Adoption (93-Y 4-N) — 924 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — 140 (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).