Bill Text: CA AB3285 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Alcoholic beverage control: on-sale general licenses: counties.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-01 - From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 1). [AB3285 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB3285-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 3285
| Introduced by Committee on Governmental Organization (Assembly Members Blanca Rubio (Chair), Lackey (Vice Chair), Addis, Bains, Bryan, Davies, Dixon, Gabriel, Gipson, Jones-Sawyer, Low, McKinnor, Pacheco, Papan, Soria, Ta, Valencia, and Wallis) |
March 13, 2024 |
An act to amend Section 23827 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverage control.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 3285, as introduced, Committee on Governmental Organization.
Alcoholic beverage control: on-sale general licenses: counties.
Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application for, and issuance and suspension of, alcoholic beverage licenses. Existing law creates various types of on-sale general licenses. Existing law authorizes the department to issue 4 additional new original on-sale general licenses for bona fide public eating places for premises that have a seating capacity for 100 or more diners in a county where the inhabitants number less than 7,000 and the major economy of the county is dependent on continual use of that county’s recreational facilities. Existing law prohibits a license of this type from being transferred from one county to another.
This bill would additionally require that the economy of a county in which the licenses described above may be issued
also be dependent on tourism. The bill would prohibit the transfer of these licenses to any premises that do not qualify under the provisions pursuant to which these licenses are issued.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 23827 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:23827.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, in any county where the inhabitants number less than 7,000 and where the major economy of that county is dependent upon tourism and the continual use of that county’s recreational In
(b) In issuing the licenses provided for in this section, the department shall follow the procedure set forth in Section 23961.
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(c) A license issued pursuant to this section shall not be transferred from one county to another. another, nor shall it be transferred to any premises not qualifying under this section.
