Summary: Red Tape Reduction Commission; review of regulatoryrequirements; report. Creates the Red Tape Reduction Commission (theCommission) to develop and maintain a state regulatory baseline of all currentstate regulatory requirements, with the initial baseline to be completed byJanuary 1, 2020. The bill defines a regulatory requirement as any actionrequired to be taken or information required to be provided in accordance witha statute or regulation in order to access government services or operate andconduct business and excludes requirements that are necessary to conform tochanges in Virginia statutory law or the appropriation act where no agencydiscretion is involved or to meet requirements of federal law or regulations.The bill also provides that after the regulatory baseline has been established,any subsequent regulatory requirement proposed by an agency that is notincluded in the initial state regulatory baseline is considered a new regulatoryrequirement and requires the approval of the Commission before it may beenacted. The bill prohibits the Commission from approving a new regulationunless it replaces or repeals at least two existing regulations, until thetotal baseline has been reduced by 35 percent. Thereafter, approvals andcorresponding replacement or repeal by the Commission shall be on a one-for-onebasis. In addition, the bill provides for the Commission to review currentstate regulatory requirements and provide recommendations to the Governor andGeneral Assembly on measures to reduce the baseline regulatory requirements.The bill requires the Commission to submit a report to the Governor and GeneralAssembly by November 1, 2018, on (i) the organizational structure of the Commission,(ii) duties of staff, and (iii) guidelines for determining what constitutes aregulatory requirement.

Summary: Private security; compliance agent experience; surety bond. Removes the requirement that a compliance agent for a private security services business have either five years of experience or three years of managerial or supervisory experience in a private security services business, a state or local law-enforcement agency, or a related field. The bill also removes the option for a private security services business or a private security services training school to be covered by a bond in lieu of liability insurance.

Summary: Alcoholic beverage control; sales conductedat government stores established by the Alcoholic Beverage ControlBoard on a distiller's licensed premises; disposition of markup profits.Provides that any reasonable markup imposed by the Alcoholic BeverageControl Board pursuant to subdivision A 2 of § 4.1-235 on spiritssold at a government store established on a distiller's licensedpremises shall be retained by such distiller.

Summary: Alcoholic beverage control; brewery licensees.Provides that brewery licensees, like farm winery licensees, maysell at retail the brands of beer that the brewery owns not onlyat its own premises but also at a maximum of five additional retailestablishments of the licensee designated in the license.

Summary: Alcoholic beverage control; privileges of bedand breakfast licensees. Expands the privileges of bed and breakfastlicensees to include the authority to sell and serve alcoholic beveragesin dining areas, private guest rooms, and other designated areasto any person, with or without meals, for on-premises consumptiononly in such rooms and areas, and without regard to the amount ofgross receipts from the sale of food prepared and consumed on thepremises. Current law only allows bed and breakfast licensees toserve alcoholic beverages in such areas to persons to whom overnightlodging is being provided. The bill limits such licensees to sellingno more than (i) two five-ounce glasses of wine, (ii) two 12-ounce glasses of beer, or (iii) four ounces of straight spirits or twoglasses of mixed beverages, provided that each glass of mixed beveragescontains no more than two ounces of spirits, to any customer. Thebill provides that bed and breakfast licensees shall not be prohibitedfrom charging a customer for the service of alcoholic beverages separatelyfrom other expenses incurred by such customer at the bed and breakfastestablishment. The bill increases from $35 to $150 the annual statealcoholic beverage tax for bed and breakfast licensees.

Summary: Definition of restaurant; exception; bed-and-breakfast operations. Exempts from requirements related to restaurants, including licensure requirements, any bed-and-breakfast operation that prepares food for and offers food to guests, regardless of the time the food is prepared and offered, so long as (i) the premises of the bed-and-breakfast operation is a home that is owner occupied or owner-agent occupied, (ii) the bed-and-breakfast operation prepares food for and offers food to guests only, (iii) the number of guests served by the bed-and-breakfast operation does not exceed 18 on any single day, and (iv) guests for whom food is prepared and to whom food is offered are informed in a manner established by the State Board of Health in regulations that the food is prepared in a kitchen that is not licensed as a restaurant and is not subject to regulations governing restaurants. This bill contains technical amendments.

Summary: Alcoholic beverage control; distiller licensee;commission from sales on licensed premises; samples; hours of operation;markup. Requires the Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority (theAuthority) to pay a licensed distiller a commission of 25 percentof the retail price of any spirits sold by the distiller at a governmentstore on his licensed premises and prohibits the Authority from imposinga markup when reselling such spirits to the licensee. The bill allowssuch stores to operate on Sundays after 10:00 a.m. and allows licenseddistillers to include in samples mixers consisting of other alcoholicbeverages not manufactured on the licensed premises. The bill alsoincreases the number of banquet licenses for special events a licensed distiller may purchase per year from four to eight and allows thelicensee to sell samples of spirits at such special events.

Summary: Alcoholic beverage control; substance abuse prevention; Virginia Institutions of Higher Education Substance Use Advisory Committee established. Directs the Board of Directors of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority (Board) to establish and appoint members to the Virginia Institutions of Higher Education Substance Use Advisory Committee (Advisory Committee). The bill provides that the goal of the Advisory Committee shall be to develop and update a statewide strategic plan for substance use education, prevention, and intervention at Virginia's public and private institutions of higher education. The bill provides that the Advisory Committee shall consist of representatives from Virginia's public and private institutions of higher education, including students and directors of student health, and such other members as the Board may deem appropriate. This bill is identical to SB 120.

Summary: Department of Planning and Budget; regulatory reduction pilot program; report. Directs the Department of Planning and Budget (the Department), under the supervision of the Secretary of Finance (the Secretary), to administer a three-year regulatory reduction pilot program aimed at reducing by 25 percent the regulations and regulatory requirements, as defined in the bill, of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation and the Department of Criminal Justice Services by July 1, 2021. The bill requires the Secretary to report annually to the Speaker of the House and the Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee no later than October 1, 2019, and October 1, 2020, on the progress of the regulatory reduction pilot program. The bill also requires the Secretary to report by August 15, 2021, to the Speaker of the House and the Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee (i) the progress toward identifying the 25 percent reduction goal, (ii) recommendations for expanding the program to other agencies, and (iii) any additional information the Secretary determines may be helpful to support the General Assembly's regulatory reduction and reform efforts. The bill provides that if, by October 1, 2021, the program has achieved less than a 25 percent total reduction in regulations and regulatory requirements across both pilot agencies, the Secretary shall report on the feasibility and effectiveness of implementing a 2-for-1 regulatory budget providing that for every one new regulatory requirement, two existing regulatory requirements of equivalent or greater burden must be streamlined, repealed, or replaced for a period not to exceed three years. Lastly, the bill directs all executive branch agencies subject to the Administrative Process Act (§ 2.2-4000 et seq.) to develop a baseline regulatory catalog and report such catalog data to the Department, which shall then track and report on the extent to which agencies comply with existing requirements to periodically review all regulations every four years. This bill is identical to SB 20.

Summary: Alcoholic beverage control; spirit samples. Increases the single sample size for tastings of spirits to one ounce, or two ounces when served as a mixed beverage. The bill also eliminates the requirements that (i) no more than four total samples of alcoholic beverage products or, in the case of spirits samples, no more than three ounces of spirits shall be given or sold to any person per day and (ii) a method be used to track the consumption of spirits samples consumed by each consumer.

Summary: Alcoholic beverage control; distiller licensee;commission for sales on licensed premises. Requires the Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority to pay a licensed distiller a commissionof 20 percent of the retail price of any spirits sold by the distillerat a government store on the licensed premises.

Summary: Alcoholic beverage control; distiller's license;remote store location and tasting room. Allows a distiller licenseewho operates a government store for the sale of spirits to add tothe license one additional location that is not on the licensed premises(i) to conduct tastings and (ii) for the sale of spirits.

Summary: Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act; hookah lounges.Exempts hookah lounges, as defined in the bill, from the prohibitionagainst smoking in restaurants.