BILL NUMBER: AB 1798	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Evans

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2010

   An act to amend Section 25237 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to alcoholic beverage control.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1798, as introduced, Evans. Alcoholic beverages: wine labeling.

   Existing law makes it unlawful to make any representation that a
wine is produced entirely from grapes grown in specified counties
unless the representation is true. Existing law specifies that those
provisions apply to representations made on labels, advertising
matter, letterheads, invoices, tags, signs, business cards, and all
other representations of any kind whether oral, written, or printed.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive changes in those
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 25237 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   25237.  It is unlawful to make any representation that a wine is
produced entirely from grapes grown in the counties mentioned in
Section 25236 unless the representation is true. This section
 applies   shall apply  to representations
made on labels, advertising matter, letterheads, invoices, tags,
signs, business cards, and all other representations of any kind
 whether   that are  oral, written, or
printed.