Bill Text: CA SB1429 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Alcoholic beverages: instruction: tastings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-08-29 - Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Allen. [SB1429 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB1429-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1429	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 9, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Evans

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section  1719 of the Code of Civil
Procedure,    25503.5 of the Business and Professions
Code,   relating to  judgments   alcoholic
beverages  .


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1429, as amended, Evans.  Judgments: foreign-country
money judgments.   Alcoholic beverages: instruction:
tastings.  
   The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act permits a winegrower or
distilled spirits manufacturer, or its authorized agent, to instruct
consumers on the subject of wine or distilled spirits subject to
specified provisions, including that the winegrower or distilled
spirits manufacturer remove any unfinished alcoholic beverages. 

   This bill would revise the provision requiring the removal of
unfinished alcoholic beverages by the winegrower or distilled spirits
manufacturer.  
   The Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act
provides a procedure for recognition of a foreign-country judgment
that grants or denies recovery of a sum of money and that is final,
conclusive, and enforceable under the law of the foreign country
where rendered, with specified exceptions. If a court finds that the
foreign-country judgment is entitled to recognition, then the
judgment is both conclusive between the parties and enforceable in
California, as specified.  
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these
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 25503.5 of the  
Business and Professions Code   is amended to read: 
   25503.5.  (a) A winegrower, beer manufacturer, or a beer and wine
wholesaler may, without charge, instruct licensees and their
employees, or conduct courses of instruction for licensees and their
employees, on the subject of wine or beer, including but not limited
to, the history, nature, values, and characteristics of wine or beer,
the use of wine lists, and the methods of presenting and serving
wine or beer. The winegrower, beer manufacturer, or beer and wine
wholesaler may furnish wine or beer and the equipment, materials and
utensils that may be required for use in connection with the
instruction or courses of instruction.
   (b) A distilled spirits manufacturer, distilled spirits
manufacturer's agent, distilled spirits general rectifier, or
distilled spirits general importer may, without charge, instruct
licensees and their employees, or conduct courses of instruction for
licensees and their employees, on the subject of distilled spirits,
including, but not limited to, the history, nature, values, and
characteristics of distilled spirits, and the methods of presenting
and serving distilled spirits. The distilled spirits manufacturer or
distilled spirits manufacturer's agent may furnish distilled spirits
and the equipment, materials, and utensils that may be required for
use in connection with the instruction or courses of instruction.
   (c) A winegrower or distilled spirits manufacturer, or its
authorized agent  ,  may instruct consumers at an on-sale
retail licensed premises authorized to sell its product with the
permission of the retail on-sale licensee. The instruction may
include, without limitation, the history, nature, values, and
characteristics of the product and the methods of presenting and
serving the product. The instruction of consumers may include the
furnishing of not more than three tastings to any individual in one
day. A single tasting of distilled spirits may not exceed one-fourth
of one ounce and a single tasting of wine may not exceed one ounce.
 The   Upon concluding the instruction, the
 winegrower or distilled spirits manufacturer, or its authorized
agent shall remove any unfinished alcoholic beverages that he or she
provided  following   during  the
instruction. Nothing in this subdivision shall limit the giving away
of samples pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 23386.
   (d) The instruction or courses of instruction, authorized in
subdivision (a) or (b), may be given at the premises of the
winegrower, beer manufacturer, beer and wine wholesaler, distilled
spirits manufacturer, distilled spirits manufacturer's agent,
distilled spirits general rectifier, distilled spirits general
importer or of a licensee, including an on-sale retail licensee, or
elsewhere. 
  SECTION 1.    Section 1719 of the Code of Civil
Procedure is amended to read:
   1719.  If the court in a proceeding under Section 1718 finds that
the foreign-country judgment is entitled to recognition under this
chapter then, to the extent that the foreign-country judgment grants
or denies recovery of a sum of money, the foreign-country judgment is
both:
   (a) Conclusive between the parties to the same extent as the
judgment of a sister state entitled to full faith and credit in this
state would be conclusive.
   (b) Enforceable in the same manner and to the same extent as a
judgment rendered in this state.