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