CA SB 1273
enactedAlcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions: instructional events and promotional lectures: advertisements.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
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Quick answers
Did CA SB 1273 pass?
Yes. CA SB 1273 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2026-09-20): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 428, Statutes of 2026.
What is CA SB 1273 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 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 include videos of the retailer's premises, personnel, and customers and contain or consist of pictures, illustrations, videos, and graphical depictions. The bill would prohibit videos of the retailer's premises, personnel, and customers from being longer than 60 seconds in duration. 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 include pictures, illustrations, videos, and depictions of the winegrower, wine importer, or winegrower's agent licensee and would authorize the advertisement to contain or consist of pictures, illustrations, videos, or graphical depictions. 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.
Who sponsors CA SB 1273?
Cabaldon is the primary sponsor of CA SB 1273, joined by 2 cosponsors.
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 include videos of the retailer's premises, personnel, and customers and contain or consist of pictures, illustrations, videos, and graphical depictions. The bill would prohibit videos of the retailer's premises, personnel, and customers from being longer than 60 seconds in duration. 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 include pictures, illustrations, videos, and depictions of the winegrower, wine importer, or winegrower's agent licensee and would authorize the advertisement to contain or consist of pictures, illustrations, videos, or graphical depictions. 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
- Latest action
- 2026-09-20 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 428, Statutes of 2026.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Cabaldonauthor
- McNerneycoauthor
- Aguiar-Currycoauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
Newest first
2026-09-20
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 428, Statutes of 2026.
became-law
2026-09-20
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2026-09-03
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
executive-receipt
2026-08-27
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2026-08-25
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2026-08-25
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-08-25
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6499.) Ordered to the Senate.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-08-18
Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-3
2026-08-18
Read third time and amended.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-08-17
Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-3
2026-08-17
Action rescinded whereby bill was read third time, passed, and ordered to Senate.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-08-03
In Assembly. Held at Desk.
2026-08-03
Ordered to the Assembly.
2026-07-02
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2026-07-02
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-07-02
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 5985.) Ordered to the Senate.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-06-25
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
reading-1,reading-2
2026-06-24
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 24).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
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.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2026-05-28
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O.
amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2026-05-11
Referred to Com. on G.O.
referral-committee
2026-05-04
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
reading-1
2026-05-04
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4130.) Ordered to the Assembly.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-04-14
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2026-04-13
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2026-03-27
Set for hearing April 13.
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.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2026-03-10
Set for hearing March 24.
2026-03-04
Referred to Com. on G.O.
referral-committee
2026-02-23
Read first time.
reading-1
2026-02-23
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
2026-02-20
Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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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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