Alcoholic beverage control; ABC Board to require bar bystander training. (SB1150)

Introduced By

Sen. Barbara Favola (D-Arlington)

Progress

Introduced
Passed Committee
Passed House
Passed Senate
Signed by Governor
Became Law

Description

Alcoholic beverage control; bar bystander training. Directs the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to promulgate regulations that require all retail on-premises licensees and employees of such licensees who serve as a bartender or otherwise sell, serve, or dispense alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption to undergo bar bystander training. The bill provides that the bar bystander training program shall focus on providing licensees, bartenders, and other employees with (i) information that will better enable them to recognize situations that may lead to sexual assault and (ii) intervention strategies to prevent such situations from culminating in sexual assault. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Passed

History

DateAction
01/09/2017Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103052D
01/09/2017Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
01/20/2017Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (12-Y 0-N 1-A) (see vote tally)
01/20/2017Committee substitute printed 17104488D-S1
01/23/2017Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
01/24/2017Impact statement from DPB (SB1150S1)
01/24/2017Read second time
01/24/2017Reading of substitute waived
01/24/2017Committee substitute agreed to 17104488D-S1
01/24/2017Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1150S1
01/25/2017Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
01/31/2017Placed on Calendar
01/31/2017Read first time
01/31/2017Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
02/08/2017Referred from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
02/08/2017Referred to Committee on General Laws
02/10/2017Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #3
02/14/2017Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (4-Y 3-N)
02/16/2017Reported from General Laws with amendments (15-Y 6-N) (see vote tally)
02/20/2017Read second time
02/21/2017Read third time
02/21/2017Committee amendments agreed to
02/21/2017Engrossed by House as amended
02/21/2017Passed House with amendments (56-Y 41-N)
02/21/2017VOTE: PASSAGE (56-Y 41-N) (see vote tally)
02/22/2017House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
03/07/2017Enrolled
03/07/2017Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1150ER)
03/07/2017Signed by Speaker
03/09/2017Impact statement from DPB (SB1150ER)
03/10/2017Signed by President
03/13/2017Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
03/13/2017G Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
03/24/2017G Approved by Governor-Chapter 743 (effective 7/1/17)
03/24/2017G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0743)

Video

This bill was discussed on the floor of the General Assembly. Below is all of the video that we have of that discussion, 2 clips in all, totaling 3 minutes.

Transcript

This is a transcript of the video clips in which this bill is discussed.



Sen. Bill Stanley (R-Moneta): INTRODUCTIONS, AS A MATTER OF FACT

[Unknown]: DAN: THE SENATOR HAS THE FLOOR

Sen. Bill Stanley (R-Moneta): I HAD THE HONOR OF BEING ON A LEGISLATIVE SPAN FOR THE PANEL E VIRGINIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. I WAS SO EXCITED BECAUSE I WAS GOING TO BE SITTING WITH THE SENATOR FROM JAMES CITY. LIKE A PINNACLE OF MY CAREER UNTIL THE SENATOR FROM JAMES CITY FOUND OUT I WAS GOING TO BE ON THE PANEL AND HE SENT THE SENATOR FROM BEDFORD IN HIS PLACE. BE THAT AS IT MAY, TODAY IS CHAMBER DAY AT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. I WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE THE CHAMBERS HERE TODAY FOR CHAMBER DAY. VIRGINIA CHAMBER IS A NONPARTISAN BUSINESS THAT WORKS AT THE STATE AND FEDERAL LEVEL TO BE A FORCE FOR LONG-TERM ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE COMMONWEALTH. THEY ARE THE LARGEST BUSINESS ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION IN THE COMMONWEALTH WITH MORE THAN 25,000 MEMBERS. THEY WILL BE HOSTING AT THE OLD DOMINION ASSEMBLY LEGISLATIVE RECEPTION THIS EVENING AT THE RICHMOND HILTON DOWNTOWN AND, OF COURSE, YOU ALL ARE INVITED TO THE MEMBERS ON CHAMBER DAY AND I ATTEND AT JOIN ME IN WELCOMING ASK THAT YOU EXTEND TOO THEM THE WARM WELCOME OF THE SENATE

[Unknown]: THANK YOU, SENATOR. WOULD MEMBERS FROM THE VIRGINIA CHAMBER RISE? SENATOR, THEY MAY BE WATCHING WG FROM ANOTHER ROOM BUT I ENJOYED BEING WITH YOU ALL AS WELL THIS MORNING AND WE APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU DO TO SUPPORT BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA. I WOULD ASK THE MEMBERS OF THE


Del. Scott Lingamfelter (R-Woodbridge): UNFORTUNATELY. WE DON'T HAVE RECIPROCITY. AND THERE HAVE BEEN MORE THAN A FEW INSTANCES WHERE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN STOPPED SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE A CONCEAL CARRY PERMIT. THAT IS AN UNFAIR AND UNJUST HARASSMENT OF VIRGINIANS. AND SO MR. SPEAKER, IF YOU CARE ABOUT THE RIGHTS OF VIRGINIANS, TO PROTECT THEMSELVES UNDER THE SECOND AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, THEN I SUGGEST THAT YOU SHOULD PASS THE BILL.

Del. Bill Howell (R-Fredericksburg): GENTLEMAN FROM FAIRFAX, MR. ALBO.

Del. Dave Albo (R-Springfield): MR. SPEAKER, WOULD THE GENTLEMAN FROM PRINCE WILLIAM, DELEGATE LINGAMFELTER, RISE FOR A QUESTION?

[Unknown]: I HAVE RISEN.

Del. Dave Albo (R-Springfield): THE GENTLEMAN YIELDS.

Del. Bill Howell (R-Fredericksburg): AS MUCH AS I HATE TO SAY THIS, THE GENTLEMAN FROM ALEXANDRIA HAD A GOOD POINT, I THOUGHT. SO NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW, WHY IS THAT THERE? WHAT LAW IS CONFLICTING WITH THIS?

[Unknown]: I THINK THAT THAT PROVISION IS THERE, MR. SPEAKER, PRIMARILY TO CLARIFY, GIVEN THE COMPLEXITY OF THE CONCEAL CARRY PERMIT RECIPROCITY LANGUAGE, THAT'S WHY I BELIEVE THAT THAT LANGUAGE IS THERE. MR. SPEAKER, AN ADDITIONAL QUESTION? YIELD YIELD. WILL THE GENTLEMAN YIELD? I YIELD. I YIELD.