republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-724.md

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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 657.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 724	Virginia SB 724 (2024)	bill		enacted	William M. Stanley, Jr.	4	34	8	2024-01-19	2024-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/a062f7e9-9111-48ff-8e1a-ce788a21c7ee	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB724	8712d8f6ff0eac4ba22b54cdad4a9dfd0cc58f6bc136a9f8faa9d781e8beda48	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 724 (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 657.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0627 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24107939D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Presented and ordered printed 24104555D (committee substitute) — source
4. SB724ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (94-Y 4-N) — 93–4 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• William M. Stanley, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-19 Presented and ordered printed 24104555D introduction
• 2024-01-19 Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services referral-committee
• 2024-01-27 Impact statement from DPB (SB724)
• 2024-02-02 Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-06 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-06 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-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 24107939D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-23 Impact statement from DPB (SB724H1)
• 2024-02-26 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-27 Passed by for the day
• 2024-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Committee substitute agreed to 24107939D-H1 substitution
• 2024-02-28 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB724H1 substitution
• 2024-02-28 Passed House with substitute (94-Y 4-N) passage
• 2024-02-28 VOTE: Passage (94-Y 4-N) passage
• 2024-03-01 House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-03-01 Title replaced 24107939D-H1
• 2024-03-06 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-06 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB724ER) passage
• 2024-03-06 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 Impact statement from DPB (SB724ER)
• 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 627 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0627)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a062f7e9-9111-48ff-8e1a-ce788a21c7ee. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).