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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 1163: Alcoholic beverage control; food-to-beverage ratio, sunset.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 1163 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on January 7, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Alcoholic beverage control; food-to-beverage ratio, sunset. Primary sponsor: Ryan McDougle (Republican). Most recent recorded action (February 18, 2025): Left in General Laws.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

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 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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Ryan McDouglePrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate26

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Left in General Laws
  2. Referred to Committee on General Laws
  3. Read first time
  4. Placed on Calendar
  5. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1163)
  6. Passed Senate (36-Y 4-N)
  7. Rules suspended
  8. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
  9. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute-SB1163S1
  10. Rehabilitation and Social Services Substitute agreed to
  11. Reading of substitute waived
  12. Read second time

Showing 12 most recent of 20 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source