BILL NUMBER: AB 573	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chesbro

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2011

   An act to amend Section 25503.7 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 573, as introduced, Chesbro. Alcoholic beverages: tied-house
restrictions.
   Existing provisions of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, known
as "tied-house" restrictions, generally prohibit manufacturers,
winegrowers, bottlers, importers, wholesalers, and others from
performing certain activities, with specified exceptions. Existing
law allows any winegrower, beer manufacturer, or beer and wine
wholesaler to serve food and alcoholic beverages to any person,
including an alcoholic beverage licensee and his or her employees and
representatives, who is attending a meeting held upon or who is
visiting the premises of the winegrower or beer manufacturer.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this
provision.
   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 25503.7 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   25503.7.  A winegrower, beer manufacturer, or beer and wine
wholesaler may serve food and alcoholic beverages to any person,
including a person licensed under this division and his or her
employees and representatives, who is attending a meeting held upon
or who is visiting the premises of the winegrower,  the 
beer manufacturer, or  the  beer and wine wholesaler.