General Laws

Thursday, January 22, 2026·21m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Virginia General Laws Committee advanced ten bills and re-referred three others in a largely non-controversial session, with the ABC Gaming and Procurement and Open Government subcommittees reporting out measures covering historical horse racing distributions, tribal sovereignty, ABC tastings, Texas Hold'em poker age limits, charitable gaming, sports betting credit card restrictions, and FOIA enforcement — while one FOIA bill was continued to 2027.

Key Actions

·HB 448 – Re-referral (bill title not provided)No Vote

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Notable Quotes

“This bill will allow ABC employees to conduct tastings within ABC stores. Currently tastings can only be conducted by employees or representatives of a liquor company. It also clarifies that ABC may sell other items that are connected to distilled spirits including but not limited to garnishes.”
Chairman Torreon — Chairman Torreon was presenting the ABC Gaming Subcommittee's report on HB 385, which would expand who may conduct tastings inside ABC stores and what items ABC may sell.

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Votes

Re-refer HB 448 to Committee of Courts of JusticePassed

Re-refer HB 970 to Committee on Health and Human ServicesPassed

Re-refer HB 924 to Committee on EducationPassed

Report HB 49 from full committeePassed

Adopt subcommittee amendments to HB 367Passed

Report HB 367 as amended from full committeePassed

Report HB 368 from full committeePassed

Adopt subcommittee amendments to HB 385Passed

Report HB 385 as amended from full committeePassed

Adopt substitute for HB 396Passed

Report HB 396 as substituted from full committeePassed

Report HB 399 from full committeePassed

Report HB 515 from full committeePassed

Adopt amendments to HB 159 (moved by Chair McClure)Passed

Report HB 159 as amended from full committeePassed

Continue HB 160 to 2027 with a letter to the FOIA CouncilPassed

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TranscriptPreview

Good afternoon, everybody. I'll call this meeting in order. We have 12 bills in front of the committee and I'm going to ask the clerk to call the roll. Oh, clerk will close the roll. We have a quorum first. We have some administrative items to take care of. We have three bills to be re referred at the speaker's request. House Bill 448 from Delegate Simon is requested to be re referred to the committee of courts of Justice. That's a voice vote. All in favor? Opposed? Ayes have it. We will refer that bill. Next we have HB 970 from delegate price. This is a request to be referred to the committee on health and human Services. It's been moved and seconded. All in favor? Aye. That has been re referred. And the third one is Delegate House Bill 924 from Delegate Rasool. And the speaker would like that to be referred to the committee on education. All in favor? Kate's been moved and seconded. All in favor? Signify by saying aye. All right, we've referred that to committee on education. Now we're going to hear the reports from the subcommittees which met on Tuesday. I want to…

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