Bill Text: CA SB1304 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft
Bill Title: Property taxation: disaster relief: Porter Ranch methane gas leak.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Vetoed) 2016-11-30 - Last day to consider Governor's veto pursuant to Joint Rule 58.5. [SB1304 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB1304-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 1304	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Huff

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 23007 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1304, as introduced, Huff. Alcoholic beverages: wine.
   The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act defines alcoholic beverages for
purposes of that act and includes a definition of wine.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
   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 23007 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   23007.  "Wine" means the product obtained from normal alcoholic
fermentation of the juice of sound ripe grapes or other agricultural
products containing natural or added sugar or any such alcoholic
beverage to which is added grape brandy, fruit brandy, or spirits of
wine,  which   that  is distilled from the
particular agricultural product or products of which the wine is made
and other rectified wine products and by whatever name and 
which   that  does not contain more than 15 percent
added flavoring, coloring, and blending material and  which
  that  contains not more than 24 percent of
alcohol by volume, and includes vermouth and sake, known as Japanese
rice wine.
   Nothing contained in this section affects or limits the power,
authority, or duty of the State Department of Health Services in the
enforcement of the laws directed toward preventing the manufacture,
production, sale, or transportation of adulterated, misbranded, or
mislabeled alcoholic beverages, and the definition of "wine"
contained in this section is limited strictly to the purposes of this
division and does not extend to, or repeal by implication, any law
preventing the production, manufacture, sale, or transportation of
adulterated, misbranded, or mislabeled alcoholic beverages.
                                                         
feedback