BILL NUMBER: SB 685	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator McGuire

                        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 introduced, McGuire. Alcoholic beverage service:
veterans' club license: beer and wine tasting.
   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 licenced establishment only to members of
the veterans' organization and their guests.
   This bill would additionally authorize a holder of a veterans'
club license, as part of a beer tasting, wine tasting, or beer and
wine tasting event, to sell and serve beer, wine, or food for
consumption within the licensed establishment to members of the
general public, as well as to the members of the veterans'
organization and their guests.
   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 23453 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   23453.   The   (a)    
Except as provided in subdivision (b), a  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.  A 
    (b)     Notwithstanding any other law, as
part of a beer tasting, wine tasting, or beer and wine tasting event,
a holder of a veterans' club license may sell and serve beer, wine,
or food for consumption within the licensed establishment to members
of the general public, as well as to the members of the veterans'
organization and their   guests. 
    (c)     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  of this division 
do not apply to the issuance of veterans' club licenses.