Compliance & Enforcement
The Commonwealth is paying more to inspect a Northern Virginia restaurant than three out of four Washington-area restaurants pay the manager running it. The General Assembly funded 17 new special agents this year, and the reason is the permit that takes effect October 1.
Compliance & Enforcement
Virginia ABC's FY2026 final Board orders record 589 disciplinary matters, $1,143,700 in civil penalties and 12 revocations. Selling to someone under 21 accounted for more than half the caseload and roughly two thirds of the money.
Tobacco & Nicotine
Attorney General Jay Jones announced the Regulated Products Enforcement Unit on July 30. Hours earlier the Fourth Circuit upheld North Carolina's vape directory against a preemption challenge, the ruling a Virginia injunction had been waiting on since December.
Compliance & Enforcement
A downtown music venue lost its license for 30 days. The shows moved into a warehouse and two houses. The fire department closed all three, because none of them was legally allowed to hold a crowd.