SEARCH SITE

VIRGINIA LAW PORTAL

SEARCHABLE DATABASES

ACROSS SESSIONS

Developed and maintained by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.

2020 SESSION

  • print version
Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
Subcommittee ABC

Mason (Chair), McPike, Spruill, Reeves, Cosgrove

Date of Meeting: January 28, 2020
Time and Place: 9:00 AM Senate Subcommittee Room 3 Update: Added SB 1029
Added SB 1029

S.B. 298

Patron: Stanley

Alcoholic beverage control; tied house exception. Allows wholesale licensees to enter into sponsorship or advertising contracts with annual mixed beverage motor sports facility licensees who operate food concessions at an outdoor motor sports road racing club facility that is located on 1,200 acres of rural property bordering the Dan River and has a track surface of 3.27 miles in length.

S.B. 441

Patron: Surovell

Alcoholic beverage control; winery license privileges. Allows winery licensees to sell at retail the brands of wine that the winery owns (i) at premises described in the winery license for on-premises consumption or in closed containers for off-premises consumption or (ii) in approved areas at four special events per year for on-premises consumption or in closed containers for off-premises consumption, provided that not less than 20 percent of the volume of wine sold for on-premises consumption in any calendar year is manufactured on the licensed premises.

S.B. 676

Patron: Mason

Zoning; City of Hampton; alcoholic beverage control licensees. Grants the City of Hampton authority to impose a condition upon any special exception or use permit relating to retail alcoholic beverage control licensees which provides that such special exception or use permit will automatically expire upon a change of ownership of the property, a change in possession, a change in the operation or management of a facility, or the passage of a specific period of time.

S.B. 824

Patron: Ruff

Alcoholic beverage control; distiller licenses; Internet orders and shipments. Allows the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to include provisions in its agency agreements with licensed distillers operating government stores that allow such distillers to sell spirits and low alcohol beverage coolers through Internet orders and ship such orders directly to consumers within the Commonwealth for personal consumption. The bill also clarifies the power of the Board of Directors of the Authority to sell alcoholic beverages through Internet orders and to ship such orders directly to consumers or licensees within the Commonwealth.

S.B. 833

Patron: Ebbin

Alcoholic beverage control; cocktail supply shop license. Creates a cocktail supply shop license, which (i) may be granted to a retail establishment in which at least 75 percent of its annual sales come from the sale of cocktail-related supplies other than spirits and (ii) authorizes the licensee to sell or give samples of spirits, subject to quantity limits set forth in the bill. The bill establishes state and local license fees for such license.

S.B. 1029

Patron: Mason

Alcoholic beverage control; gourmet shop license; distiller participation in tastings. Allows distillers to participate in tastings held by gourmet shop licensees.