VA HB1703 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 21 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-01-23 - Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
Pending: Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Status: Engrossed on January 21 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-01-23 - Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
Pending: Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Summary
Alcoholic beverage control; tied house exceptions. Removes certain provisions of the exceptions to the tied house limitations that state a manufacturer, bottler, importer, broker, or wholesaler cannot require, by agreement or otherwise, a retailer to exclude from sale at his establishment alcoholic beverages of other manufacturers, bottlers, importers, brokers, or wholesalers in order for the exception to apply. However, the bill retains the general prohibition that no manufacturer, bottler, importer, broker, or wholesaler of alcoholic beverages shall make an agreement, or attempt to make an agreement, with a retail licensee pursuant to which any products sold by a competitor are excluded in whole or in part from the premises on which the retail licensee's business is conducted.
Title
Alcoholic beverage control; tied house exceptions.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2025-01-16 - House - Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-01-14 - House - Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-01-14 - House - Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-23 | Senate | Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services |
| 2025-01-23 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) |
| 2025-01-22 | House | Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-21 | House | Read second time and engrossed |
| 2025-01-21 | House | Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar |
| 2025-01-20 | House | Read first time |
| 2025-01-16 | House | Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-15 | House | Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1703) |
| 2025-01-14 | House | Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) |
| 2025-01-13 | House | Assigned GL sub: ABC/Gaming |
| 2025-01-04 | House | Referred to Committee on General Laws |
| 2025-01-04 | House | Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101295D |
