CA AB 744
enactedAlcoholic beverage control: tied-house restrictions: exceptions: off-sale retail services.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Did CA AB 744 pass?
Yes. CA AB 744 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2026-09-18): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 265, Statutes of 2026.
What is CA AB 744 about?
Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application, issuance, and suspension of alcoholic beverage licenses. Existing law, known as tied-house restrictions, generally prohibits specified licensees from giving or lending money or a thing of value to a person operating, owning, or maintaining premises where alcoholic beverages are sold. Existing law creates various exceptions to tied-house restrictions, including permitting a licensee to perform specified services for off-sale licensees including, among other things, rotating or rearranging the brand or brands owned or sold by the licensee, as specified. This exception is limited to beer, and brands of distilled spirits in single-serve containers, and wine in single-serve containers.Existing law defines "single-serve containers" for this purpose to mean containers that have a standard fill, as defined by federal law, of between 50 and 355 milliliters for distilled spirits and between 187 and 355 milliliters for wine, whether sold individually or in multiple container packaging, the contents of which are intended to be consumed without mixing with any other substance. This bill would instead limit the exception to beer and to brands of distilled spirits or wine in containers not exceeding 500 milliliters in volume, whether sold individually or in multiple container packaging, that are intended to be consumed without mixing with any other substance.
Who sponsors CA AB 744?
Michelle Rodriguez is the primary sponsor of CA AB 744.
Description
Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application, issuance, and suspension of alcoholic beverage licenses. Existing law, known as tied-house restrictions, generally prohibits specified licensees from giving or lending money or a thing of value to a person operating, owning, or maintaining premises where alcoholic beverages are sold. Existing law creates various exceptions to tied-house restrictions, including permitting a licensee to perform specified services for off-sale licensees including, among other things, rotating or rearranging the brand or brands owned or sold by the licensee, as specified. This exception is limited to beer, and brands of distilled spirits in single-serve containers, and wine in single-serve containers.Existing law defines "single-serve containers" for this purpose to mean containers that have a standard fill, as defined by federal law, of between 50 and 355 milliliters for distilled spirits and between 187 and 355 milliliters for wine, whether sold individually or in multiple container packaging, the contents of which are intended to be consumed without mixing with any other substance. This bill would instead limit the exception to beer and to brands of distilled spirits or wine in containers not exceeding 500 milliliters in volume, whether sold individually or in multiple container packaging, that are intended to be consumed without mixing with any other substance.
- Introduced
- 2026-06-11
- Latest action
- 2026-09-18 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 265, Statutes of 2026.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Michelle Rodriguezauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
Newest first
2026-09-18
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 265, Statutes of 2026.
became-law
2026-09-18
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2026-08-31
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2026-08-25
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.).
2026-08-25
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6460.).
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2026-08-24
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2026-08-24
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.).
2026-08-13
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2026-08-12
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
2026-08-06
From Consent Calendar.
2026-08-06
Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-3
2026-08-04
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
reading-1,reading-2
2026-08-03
From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2026-06-23
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2026-06-11
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-05-21
Referred to Com. on G.O.
referral-committee
2025-05-08
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2025-05-08
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1486.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-05-01
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
reading-1,reading-2
2025-04-30
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 30).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-04-03
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-03-03
Referred to Com. on G.O.
referral-committee
2025-02-19
From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
2025-02-18
Read first time. To print.
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-04-02 · pass · 21-0
Member-level votes (22)
- Davies: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Bryan: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Ta: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Fong: yes
- Gipson: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Solache: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Berman: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Soria: yes
- Carrillo: other
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2025-04-30 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Dixon: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ta: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Solache: yes
- Fong: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Pellerin: other
AB 744 Michelle Rodriguez Consent Calendar Second Day
2025-05-08 · pass · 69-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Gabriel: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Bains: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Berman: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Chen: yes
- Haney: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Ward: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Davies: yes
- Hart: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Papan: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Fong: yes
- Patel: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Lee: yes
- Solache: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Krell: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Soria: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Addis: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Ta: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
- Carrillo: other
- Arambula: other
- Irwin: other
- Gallagher: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Wallis: other
- Flora: other
- Boerner: other
- Sanchez: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2026-06-23 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Rubio: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: other
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