The Virginia House of Delegates and Senate approved the other chamber’s bills to make to-go cocktails legal on a permanent basis, sending the pieces of legislation to Gov. Glenn Youngkin‘s (R-VA) desk for approval.
The twin bills, Senate Bill 635 and House Bill 688, were approved, 82-16 and 40-0, respectively, on Thursday.
Both bills would extend the policy, originally instituted via an order by then-Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) in April 2020, past the July expiration and make the “sale and delivery of mixed beverages and pre-mixed wine for off-premises consumption” allowed permanently with regulation. Youngkin previously signed an extension to the policy into law in 2022.
One of the key groups pushing for states to make to-go cocktail laws permanent, the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, celebrated the
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