BILL NUMBER: SB 685	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 25, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 1, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 7, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator McGuire
   (Coauthors: Senators Bates and Nielsen)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Brough, Chang, Cooper, Dodd, Kim,
Maienschein,  Olsen,  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 
congressionally chartered veterans   veterans  
'  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  congressionally chartered veterans  
veterans   '  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  veterans  
veterans   '  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.