Amended in Assembly June 25, 2015

Amended in Senate June 1, 2015

Amended in Senate April 7, 2015

Senate Bill No. 685

Introduced by Senator McGuire

(Coauthors: Senators Bates and Nielsen)

(Coauthors: Assembly Members Brough, Chang, Cooper, Dodd, Kim, Maienschein, begin insert Olsen, end insert Perea, Steinorth, and Waldron)

February 27, 2015

An act to amend Section 23453 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverage service.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 685, as amended, McGuire. Alcoholic beverage service: veterans’ club license.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides for the issuance of licenses for which various annual fees are charged depending upon the type of license issued. The act authorizes the issuance of a veterans’ club license authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption within the licensed establishment only to members of the veterans’ organization and their guests.

This bill would additionally authorize a holder of a veterans’ club license to sell and serve alcoholic beverages for consumption within the licensed establishment to members of other begin delete congressionally chartered veterans end delete begin insert veterans end insert begin insert ’ end insert organizations, active duty or reserve members of the Armed Forces, or veterans, as well as to the members of the veterans’ organization and their guests.

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 23453 of the Business and Professions
Code is amended to read:

23453.  

(a) The holder of a veterans’ club license may exercise
all of the rights and privileges permitted by an on-sale general
license but may sell and serve alcoholic beverages for consumption
within the licensed establishment only to bona fide members of
the veterans’ organization and their bona fide guests, bona fide
members of other begin delete congressionally chartered veterans end delete begin insert veterans end insert begin insert ’ end insert
organizations, active duty or reserve members of the Armed Forces,
or veterans as defined in Section 18540.4 of the Government Code.

(b) A veterans’ club license is not transferable to another person
from the person to whom issued or by whom renewed. The
provisions of Article 2 (commencing with Section 23815) of
Chapter 5 do not apply to the issuance of veterans’ club licenses.

(c) A bona fide member of a begin delete veterans end delete begin insert veterans end insert begin insert ’ end insert organization,
bona fide guest, active duty or reserve member of the Armed
Forces, or veteran is not required to sign in to a roster before
purchasing or being served alcoholic beverages for consumption.

SEC. 2.  

It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this act
to expand the rights of a holder of a veterans’ club license to serve
and sell alcoholic beverages.