republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-57.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Restaurant exemptions; certain organizations participating in fundraising events."
description: "Restaurant exemptions; certain organizations participating in fundraising events. Clarifies that the provision in current law that exempts certain organizations from provisions applicable to restaurants, including churches, fraternal or school organizations, organizations that are exempt from taxation under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and volunteer fire departments and volunteer emergency medical services agencies, applies when such organizations offer food for sale to the public as a participant in an occasional fundraising event, provided that certain conditions are met. Current law exempts such organizations from provisions applicable to restaurants when such organizations hold occasional fundraisers that offer food for sale to the public, provided that certain conditions are met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 57"
citation: "Virginia HB 57 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas C. Wright, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-12-22"
last_action: "2024-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a45eb09a-3d4e-4fe3-a495-09f2872e173b"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB57"
source_hash: "e30706a476e23d6dc08f6bdb615ce7b48f52441b6a5d71b4c444c870a69e8828"
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 57 (2024) — Restaurant exemptions; certain organizations participating in fundraising events.

Restaurant exemptions; certain organizations participating in fundraising events. Clarifies that the provision in current law that exempts certain organizations from provisions applicable to restaurants, including churches, fraternal or school organizations, organizations that are exempt from taxation under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and volunteer fire departments and volunteer emergency medical services agencies, applies when such organizations offer food for sale to the public as a participant in an occasional fundraising event, provided that certain conditions are met. Current law exempts such organizations from provisions applicable to restaurants when such organizations hold occasional fundraisers that offer food for sale to the public, provided that certain conditions are met.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0016** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0016)
2. **HB57ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB57ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100304D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB57)

## Votes

- Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-22** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100304D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-12-22** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-15** Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-18** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2024-01-23** Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-29** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-29** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-01-30** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-14** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-19** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-02-21** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB57ER) `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 16 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0016)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a45eb09a-3d4e-4fe3-a495-09f2872e173b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).