Starting July 1, Virginia enacted 19 laws that impact the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, its licensees and applicants for ABC licenses. The Virginia General Assembly passed the following Virginia ABC-related legislative proposals during the 2020 session, and Gov. Ralph Northam signed them into law. ABC License Reform (HB390, SB389 and SB447)—The combined bill modernizes and reforms Virginia ABC’s licenses by reducing the total number by approximately 50 percent. It reorganizes the licensing sections found in Title 4.1 of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act to improve service to licensees by defining licenses as either retail, wholesale or manufacturing. The bill further addresses the changing world of alcoholic beverage service by creating a new “marketplace” license, which provides discretion to ABC in issuing specialized on-premises licenses authorizing a licensee to provide limited volumes of wine and beer to customers free of charge. Modest across-the-board license fe...