SB1163
Alcoholic beverage control; food-to-beverage ratio, sunset.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Alcoholic beverage control; food-to-beverage ratio.
Reduces the current 45 percent food-to-beverage ratio for certain mixed beverage licensees. The bill requires a mixed beverage restaurant, caterer's, or limited caterer's licensee with monthly food sales of at least $4,000 to have a food-to-beverage ratio that meets or exceeds 30 percent. The bill also requires that restaurants have ... (More) at least as many seats at tables as at counters and prohibits mixed beverage licensees from serving mixed beverages once food is no longer being sold for on-premises consumption. The bill sunsets on July 1, 2027, and requires the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to collect data regarding the compliance of mixed beverage licensees with the provisions of the bill and the impact of the change to the food-to-beverage ratio on the gross amount of food consumed on a licensee's premises. The bill requires the Authority to report such data to the Chairmen of the House Committee on General Laws and the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services by November 1, 2026. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/07/2025 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102428D
- 01/07/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 01/20/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1163)
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (14-Y 1-N)
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25104842D-S1
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Read second time
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Rehabilitation and Social Services Substitute agreed to
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute-SB1163S1
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate (36-Y 4-N)
- 02/04/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1163)
- 02/07/2025 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/07/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/07/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/12/2025 - House: Placed on General Laws Agenda
- 02/18/2025 - House: Left in General Laws
