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type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage control; delivery of wine or beer to retail, wholesaler requirement."
description: "Requires that before any wine or beer may be delivered to a retail licensee for resale, such wine or beer first be delivered to the licensed premises of a wine or beer wholesaler, unloaded from the transporting vehicle, kept on the licensed premises of the wholesaler for not less than four hours prior to reloading on a vehicle, and recorded in the wholesaler's inventory. The bill exempts any holder of a restricted wholesale wine license issued pursuant to § 4.1-207.1 from the requirement to keep the wine or beer on the licensed premises of the wholesaler for not less than four hours prior to reloading on a vehicle. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 820"
citation: "Virginia HB 820 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverage Control Act"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry D. Knight"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63a0c63d-5786-4511-8942-2401b64da37a"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB820"
source_hash: "ffeb612ba958efb4b50c71efebf3f95b65f13a0cb20940e3742a06a12602b0aa"
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 820 (2018) — Alcoholic beverage control; delivery of wine or beer to retail, wholesaler requirement.
Requires that before any wine or beer may be delivered to a retail licensee for resale, such wine or beer first be delivered to the licensed premises of a wine or beer wholesaler, unloaded from the transporting vehicle, kept on the licensed premises of the wholesaler for not less than four hours prior to reloading on a vehicle, and recorded in the wholesaler's inventory. The bill exempts any holder of a restricted wholesale wine license issued pursuant to § 4.1-207.1 from the requirement to keep the wine or beer on the licensed premises of the wholesaler for not less than four hours prior to reloading on a vehicle. This bill is identical to
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB820ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB820ER)
2. **House: Committee substitute printed 18105724D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB820H1)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101429D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB820)
## Votes
- Reported from General Laws with substitute — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **80** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Barry D. Knight — primary (person)
- Debra H. Rodman — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101429D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-19** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-05** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 18105724D-H1
- **2018-02-06** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB820H1
- **2018-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-08** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
- **2018-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 166 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63a0c63d-5786-4511-8942-2401b64da37a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).