BILL ANALYSIS Ó
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | AB 1425|
|Office of Senate Floor Analyses | |
|1020 N Street, Suite 524 | |
|(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | |
|327-4478 | |
-----------------------------------------------------------------
CONSENT
Bill No: AB 1425
Author: Assembly Governmental Organization Committee
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SENATE GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE : 11-0, 6/11/13
AYES: Wright, Nielsen, Berryhill, Calderon, Cannella, Correa,
De León, Galgiani, Hernandez, Lieu, Padilla
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 70-0, 5/16/13 (Consent) - See last page for
vote
SUBJECT : Alcoholic beverages
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill makes non-controversial and clarifying
changes to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act (ABC Act).
ANALYSIS :
Existing law:
1. Establishes the Department of Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC)
and grants it exclusive authority to administer the
provisions of the ABC Act in accordance with laws enacted by
the Legislature. This involves licensing individuals and
businesses associated with the manufacture, importation and
CONTINUED
AB 1425
Page
2
sale of alcoholic beverages in this state and the collection
of license fees for this purpose.
2. Requires the Department of ABC to submit an annual report to
the Legislature by March 1 on the Department's activities for
the previous fiscal year.
3. Prohibits a licensed wine blender (Type 22) from holding a
retail license and prohibits a retail licensee from holding a
wine blender license; and specifies that this prohibition
does not apply to licenses issued on or before February 2,
1968.
4. Prohibits a licensed wine blender from conducting wine
tastings on or off its licensed premises; and specifies that
this prohibition does not apply to wine blender licenses
issued on or before February 2, 1968.
This bill makes non-controversial and clarifying changes to the
ABC Act. Specifically, this bill:
1.Amends Business and Professions Code (BPC) Section 23055 to
require the Department of ABC to post its annual report to the
Legislature on its Internet Web site by March 1 of each year
instead of submitting it to the Legislature. This proposed
change makes the report easily accessible to interested
parties and is consistent with SB 71 (Leno, Chapter 728,
Statutes of 2012), which required state agencies to place
specified reports on their Internet Web sites instead of
submitting them to the Legislature.
2.Amends BPC Sections 23356.8 and 23356.9 to remove the
grandfather clauses that allow wine blender licensees issued
prior to February 2, 1968 to hold retail licenses. At the
time these sections were enacted in 1968, two wine blenders
held retail licenses. None of the existing Type 22 wine
blender licenses were issued or transferred prior to 1968,
which makes these grandfather clauses obsolete.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 70-0, 5/16/13
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom,
CONTINUED
AB 1425
Page
3
Blumenfield, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Garcia,
Gatto, Gomez, Gordon, Gorell, Gray, Hagman, Hall, Harkey,
Roger Hernández, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue,
Lowenthal, Maienschein, Mansoor, Medina, Mitchell, Mullin,
Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea,
V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Salas, Skinner,
Ting, Torres, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk,
Williams, Yamada, John A. Pérez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Allen, Buchanan, Eggman, Beth Gaines, Grove,
Holden, Melendez, Morrell, Stone, Vacancy
MW:d 6/26/13 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
**** END ****
CONTINUED