BILL NUMBER: AB 569	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Linder

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2015

   An act to amend  Section   Sections 24045.1
and  25633 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to
alcoholic beverages.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 569, as amended, Linder. Alcoholic beverages: delivery.
   The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that alcoholic
beverages may not be delivered to on-sale and off-sale licensees on
Sunday or on any other day except between the hours of 3 a.m. and 8
p.m., and further provides that a violation of this provision is a
misdemeanor.
   This bill would  make nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.   allow beer wholesalers and beer
manufacturers to deliver beer to daily on-sale general licensees
between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. on Sunday. The bill would make
conforming technical changes. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 24045.1 of the   
 Business and Professions Code   is amended to read:

   24045.1.   (a)    The department, in its
discretion, may issue on a temporary basis a daily on-sale general
license and the fee for  such   the 
license shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) per day.  Such
  The  license authorizes the sale of distilled
spirits, wine, and beer for consumption on the premises where sold,
and  no  off-sale privileges shall  not  be
exercised under  such   the  license. A
daily on-sale general license may only be issued to a political party
or affiliate supporting a candidate for public office or a ballot
measure, an organization formed for a specific charitable or civic
purpose, a fraternal organization in existence for over five years
with a regular membership, or a religious organization. Distilled
spirits sold under a daily on-sale general license shall have been
purchased at retail from the holder of an off-sale general license.

   (b) (1) In addition to the hours and days specified in Section
25633, a beer wholesaler may deliver beer between the hours of 8 a.m.
and 8 p.m. on Sunday to a daily on-sale general licensee.  

   (2) In addition to the hours and days specified in Section 25633,
a beer manufacturer may deliver beer that it produced pursuant to
Section 23357 between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. on Sunday to a
daily on-sale general licensee.  
   The 
    (c)     The  department may adopt such
rules as it determines to be necessary to implement and administer
the provisions of this section, including, but not limited to,
limitations on the number of times during any calendar year a
qualified organization may be issued a license provided for by this
section. 
   The 
    (d)     The  provisions of Article 2
(commencing with Section 23815) of Chapter 5 and Article 2
(commencing with Section 23985) of Chapter 6 of this division shall
not be applicable to the licenses provided for by this section.
   SECTION 1.   SEC. 2.   Section 25633 of
the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:
   25633.  Except as otherwise provided in this  section, no
  section and subdivision (b) of Section 24045.1, a
 person licensed as a manufacturer, winegrower, distilled
spirits manufacturer's agent, rectifier, or wholesaler of any
alcoholic beverage shall  not  deliver or cause to be
delivered any alcoholic beverage to or for any person holding an
on-sale or off-sale license on Sunday or except between the hours of
3 a.m. and 8 p.m. of any day other than Sunday. Any alcoholic
beverage may be delivered at the platform of the manufacturing,
producing, or distributing plant at any time. Nothing contained in
this section prohibits the transportation or the carriage and
delivery in transit at any time of an alcoholic beverage between the
premises of a manufacturer, winegrower, wholesaler, distiller,
importer, or any of them. A person violating the provisions of this
section is guilty of a misdemeanor.