BILL NUMBER: SB 32	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Leno

                        DECEMBER 6, 2010

   An act to amend Section 23016 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 32, as introduced, Leno. Alcoholic beverages: definitions:
rectifiers.
   The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act contains various provisions
regulating the application for, the issuance of, the suspension of,
and the conditions imposed upon, alcoholic beverage licenses by the
Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
   Existing law defines a "rectifier" to include every person who
colors, flavors, or otherwise processes distilled spirits by
distillation, blending, percolating, or other processes.
   This bill would refine the definition of "rectifier" to exclude
any on-sale licensee that colors, flavors, or blends distilled
spirits or wine products on the licensed premises for consumption on
those premises.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 23016 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   23016.  "Rectifier" means every person who colors, flavors, or
otherwise processes distilled spirits by distillation, blending,
percolating, or other processes.  "Rectifier" does not include an
on-sale licensee that colors, flavors, or blends distilled spirits
or wine products on the on-sale licensed premises to be consumed on
the licensed premises.