BILL NUMBER: SB 825	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Governmental Organization (Senators
Wright (Chair), Benoit, Calderon, Denham, Florez, Harman, Negrete
McLeod, Oropeza, Padilla, Romero, Wiggins, Wyland, and Yee)

                        MARCH 19, 2009

   An act to amend Section 25176 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 825, as introduced, Committee on Governmental Organization.
Prohibitions: refilling distilled spirits containers.
   The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act contains various provisions
regulating the labeling and containers of alcoholic beverages within
the state, including a provision prohibiting, as a misdemeanor, the
refilling or causing to be refilled with distilled spirits any
distilled spirits package to which a tax stamp has been affixed
evidencing the payment of United States internal revenue taxes.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this
provision to conform with current United States internal revenue
procedure.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 25176 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   25176.  Every person who refills or causes to be refilled with
distilled spirits any distilled spirits  package to which has
been affixed a stamp evidencing the payment of United States
internal revenue taxes levied on the distilled spirits  
container  is guilty of a misdemeanor.