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type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage control retail licensees and employees; training on human trafficking."
description: "Department of Criminal Justice Services; alcoholic beverage control retail licensees and employees; training on human trafficking. Directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to develop an online course for the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to offer to retail licensees and their employees to train such licensees and employees to recognize and report instances of suspected human trafficking. The bill also requires the certified alcohol server or seller training that a retail licensee may offer its employees that allows a reduction in the length of any suspension or the amount of any civil penalty imposed for a license violation to include a course developed or approved by the Department of Criminal Justice Services on recognizing and reporting instances of suspected human trafficking."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2033"
citation: "Virginia HB 2033 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shelly A. Simonds"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 34
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e282553e-12f7-4468-926d-1f66bffbfc48"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2033"
source_hash: "25fcaf3393edfdf7fc6cbe036bf1479973b13c75446457627342bfcbe780df2b"
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 2033 (2025) — Alcoholic beverage control retail licensees and employees; training on human trafficking.
Department of Criminal Justice Services; alcoholic beverage control retail licensees and employees; training on human trafficking. Directs the Department of Criminal Justice Services to develop an online course for the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to offer to retail licensees and their employees to train such licensees and employees to recognize and report instances of suspected human trafficking. The bill also requires the certified alcohol server or seller training that a retail licensee may offer its employees that allows a reduction in the length of any suspension or the amount of any civil penalty imposed for a license violation to include a course developed or approved by the Department of Criminal Justice Services on recognizing and reporting instances of suspected human trafficking.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1014511.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1072356.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1054869.PDF)
## Votes
- Reported from Public Safety (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Public Safety and rereferred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) — **360** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — **60** (pass) · lower
- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Shelly A. Simonds — primary (person)
- Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
- Mike A. Cherry — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101550D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-07** Referred to Committee on Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Assigned PS sub: Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-16** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-16** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2033)
- **2025-01-17** Reported from Public Safety (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-24** Reconsidered by Public Safety
- **2025-01-24** Reported from Public Safety and referred to Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-25** Assigned Approps sub: Transportation & Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-29** Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2025-02-04** Passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-07** Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-13** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-13** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-14** Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-19** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2033ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2033)
- **2025-02-19** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-22** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 231 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0231)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e282553e-12f7-4468-926d-1f66bffbfc48`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).