Bill Text: CA AB569 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Alcoholic beverages: delivery.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB569 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB569-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 569	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 15, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Linder

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2015

   An act to amend  Sections   Section 
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 allow beer wholesalers and  certain  beer
manufacturers to deliver  beer   beer, as
specified,  to daily on-sale general licensees between the hours
of  8   6  a.m. and  8 
 2  p.m. on Sunday.  The bill would make conforming
technical changes. 
   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 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 the
license shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) per day. The license
authorizes the sale of distilled spirits, wine, and beer for
consumption on the premises where sold, and off-sale privileges shall
not be exercised under 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   beer, or a beer manufacturer
that is authorized to sell beer pursuant to Section 23357 may deliver
beer it has produced,  between the hours of  8
  6  a.m. and  8   2 
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. 
   (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.
   (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. 
  SEC. 2.    Section 25633 of the Business and
Professions Code is amended to read:
   25633.  Except as otherwise provided in this 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.