CA SB 1273

passed one chamber

Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions: instructional events and promotional lectures: video advertisements.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

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 a manufacturer, winegrower, manufacturer's agent, rectifier, California winegrower's agent, distiller, bottler, importer, and wholesaler, and any officer, director, or agent of any of those persons, from giving or lending money or a thing of value to a person operating, owning, or maintaining any on-sale premises where alcoholic beverages are sold. Existing law provides certain exceptions to this prohibition if specified requirements are met. Existing law authorizes certain licensees or their representatives to conduct or participate in certain instruction or instructional events, as specified, if specified conditions are met. In this regard, specified information, pictures, illustrations, and depictions of the retailer's premises, personnel, and customers may be listed in advertisements for the event if the pictures, illustrations, or depictions are relatively inconspicuous in relation to the advertisement as a whole and video is not permitted. This bill would make changes to the provisions related to advertising for the events described in the above paragraph, including, among other things, authorizing the advertisement to contain videos up to 60 seconds long. The bill would remove the requirement that the specified information and any pictures, illustrations, or depictions be relatively inconspicuous in relation to the advertisement as a whole. Existing law authorizes specified information of a winegrower, wine importer, or winegrower's agent licensee, the brand names of wine being featured, and the time, date, location, and other identifying information of a wine promotional lecture at retail premises to be listed in advance of the event in an advertisement of the off-sale or on-sale retail licensee. This bill would also authorize the advertisement to contain pictures, illustrations, videos, or depictions of the winegrower, wine importer, or winegrower's agent. Existing law authorizes a licenseholder or on-sale retail licensee to advertise an instructional tasting event to the general public, and specifies that permitted advertisements include flyers, newspaper ads, internet communications, and interior signage. This bill would instead authorize a licenseholder or on-sale retail licensee to advertise an instructional tasting event, and would remove the provision that specifies what advertisements are permitted.

Introduced: 2026-02-20
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-07-02 — In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

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Action timeline

2026-02-20
Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
introduction,referral-committee
2026-02-23
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
2026-02-23
Read first time.
reading-1
2026-03-04
Referred to Com. on G.O.
referral-committee
2026-03-10
Set for hearing March 24.
2026-03-24
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 3658.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-03-27
Set for hearing April 13.
2026-04-13
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
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2026-04-14
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-05-04
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4130.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2026-05-04
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2026-05-11
Referred to Com. on G.O.
referral-committee
2026-05-28
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O.
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2026-06-10
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-06-24
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 24).
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2026-06-25
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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2026-07-02
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate.
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2026-07-02
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

Versions

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05/28/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-05-28Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-03-24 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Wahab: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Ashby: other
3rd Reading SB1273 Cabaldon et al.
2026-05-04 · pass · 40-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Cervantes: yes
- Laird: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Stern: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Allen: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Jones: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Limón: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Grove: yes
- Niello: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Choi: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Becker: yes
- McNerney: yes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2026-06-10 · pass · 18-0
Member-level votes (21)
- Alvarez: yes
- Solache: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Soria: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Davies: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ta: yes
- Berman: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Carrillo: other
- Macedo: other
- Valencia: other
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2026-06-24 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Wicks: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ta: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Fong: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Krell: yes
SB 1273 Cabaldon Consent Calendar Second Day
2026-07-02 · pass · 70-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Berman: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Fong: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Haney: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Soria: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Patel: yes
- Ward: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ta: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Addis: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Krell: yes
- Hart: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Schultz: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lee: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Davies: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Flora: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Papan: other
- Sanchez: other
- Bryan: other
- Ransom: other
- Calderon: other
- Chen: other
- Ellis: other
- Elhawary: other
- Bains: other

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