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type: "Bill"
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title: "Alcoholic beverage control; availability of food when spirits served."
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description: "Directs the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to promulgate regulations that require mixed beverage licensees to have food, cooked or prepared on the licensed premises, available for on-premises consumption until at least 30 minutes prior to an establishment's closing. The bill requires that such food be available in all areas of the licensed premises in which spirits are sold or served."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2017"
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identifier: "SB 1216"
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citation: "Virginia SB 1216 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverage Control Act"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bill R. DeSteph, Jr."]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 19
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2017-01-10"
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last_action: "2017-03-24"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92b96227-5550-425d-bd4e-0b16c7e26b66"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1216"
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source_hash: "5c3cd7059087d7c7193d1f3d6b44ba92c41b82148bd73d00c2a4c09215e1ed2d"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia SB 1216 (2017) — Alcoholic beverage control; availability of food when spirits served.
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Directs the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to promulgate regulations that require mixed beverage licensees to have food, cooked or prepared on the licensed premises, available for on-premises consumption until at least 30 minutes prior to an establishment's closing. The bill requires that such food be available in all areas of the licensed premises in which spirits are sold or served.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0744)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0744)
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2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1216ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1216ER)
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3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101562D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1216)
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## Votes
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- Reported from General Laws with amendment — **20–1** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- House amendment agreed to by Senate — **39–1** (pass) · legislature
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed House with amendment — **89–7** (pass) · legislature
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **6–1** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Bill R. DeSteph, Jr. — primary (person)
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- Barry D. Knight — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101562D `introduction`
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- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2017-01-25** Passed by for the day
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- **2017-01-31** Placed on Calendar
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- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-06** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2017-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2017-02-21** Committee amendment agreed to
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- **2017-02-21** Engrossed by House as amended
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- **2017-02-21** Passed House with amendment (89-Y 7-N) `passage`
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- **2017-03-07** Enrolled
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- **2017-03-07** Signed by Speaker
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- **2017-03-10** Signed by President
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- **2017-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
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- **2017-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
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- **2017-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 744 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92b96227-5550-425d-bd4e-0b16c7e26b66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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