BILL NUMBER: AB 23	CHAPTERED  06/02/08

	CHAPTER  18
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JUNE 2, 2008
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JUNE 2, 2008
	PASSED THE SENATE  MAY 22, 2008
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 29, 2008
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 8, 2008
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 6, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 16, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 7, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 14, 2007

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ma

                        DECEMBER 4, 2006

   An act to amend Section 23039.1 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to alcoholic beverages and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 23, Ma. Alcoholic Beverage Control Act: cabaret theaters.
   Existing law provides that any on-sale beer and wine public
premises licensee that has been licensed at premises, operated as a
cabaret theater for at least 10 years, with a seating capacity for at
least 375 patrons may admit persons under 21 years of age to matinee
theater performances on Sundays, provided that alcoholic beverages
are not sold, served, or consumed on the premises during those
performances.
   This bill would allow those licensees operating a cabaret theater
to admit persons under 21 years of age to theater performances at any
time, provided that alcoholic beverages are not sold, served, or
consumed on the premises during those performances.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 23039.1 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   23039.1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any on-sale
beer and wine public premises licensee who has been licensed at
premises operated as a cabaret theater for at least 10 years and
which has a seating capacity for at least 375 patrons may admit
persons under the age of 21 years to theater performances provided
that alcoholic beverages are not sold, served, or consumed on the
premises during those performances.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to ensure that students in our communities are given
immediate opportunities during the 2007-08 school year and 2008-09
school year to attend theater performances which are a part of an
afterschool program designed to broaden their educational experiences
and extracurricular activities, and to provide students additional
safe places to be during afterschool hours, it is necessary that this
act take effect immediately.