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type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage control; annual mixed beverage performing arts facility licenses."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 724"
citation: "Virginia SB 724 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William M. Stanley, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-01-19"
last_action: "2024-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a062f7e9-9111-48ff-8e1a-ce788a21c7ee"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB724"
source_hash: "8712d8f6ff0eac4ba22b54cdad4a9dfd0cc58f6bc136a9f8faa9d781e8beda48"
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 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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0627)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24107939D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB724H1)
3. **Presented and ordered printed 24104555D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB724)
4. **SB724ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB724ER)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (94-Y 4-N) — **934** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N) — **70** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a062f7e9-9111-48ff-8e1a-ce788a21c7ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).