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CA SB 395

enacted

Alcoholic beverages: additional licenses: hospitality zone.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did CA SB 395 pass?

Yes. CA SB 395 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-06. Latest recorded action (2025-10-06): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 412, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA SB 395 about?

Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages and the granting of licenses for the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages within the state. Existing law limits the amount of on-sale general licenses that may be issued by the department based on the population of the county in which the licensed premises are located. This bill would provide an exception to the limitation described above by authorizing the issuance of up to 20 additional new original on-sale general licenses, as specified, for bona fide public eating places located within a designated hospitality zone in the City and County of San Francisco, as defined. In order to authorize the issuance of additional licenses as described above, the bill would require an ordinance adopted by the local governing body of the City and County of San Francisco to designate or modify a hospitality zone to include specified information and findings. The bill would authorize the local governing body, in an ordinance designating or modifying a hospitality zone, to further limit, among other things, the maximum number of additional licenses to be issued within its hospitality zone. The bill would require the local governing body to submit the ordinance to the department upon the adoption of an ordinance to modify or repeal a hospitality zone. The bill would require any ordinance to establish, modify, or repeal a hospitality zone to be effective commencing the following July 1. The bill would require the department to follow specified procedures concerning the issuance of these licenses, and would authorize the department to designate these licenses as on-sale general for special use. The bill would prohibit licenses issued under its provisions from being, among other things, transferred from one county to another. If one of those licenses is canceled or revoked, the bill would authorize the department to issue an additional license. The bill would prohibit the department from issuing any license under these provisions after July 1, 2033. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco.

Who sponsors CA SB 395?

Wiener is the primary sponsor of CA SB 395, joined by 1 cosponsor.

Description

Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages and the granting of licenses for the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages within the state. Existing law limits the amount of on-sale general licenses that may be issued by the department based on the population of the county in which the licensed premises are located. This bill would provide an exception to the limitation described above by authorizing the issuance of up to 20 additional new original on-sale general licenses, as specified, for bona fide public eating places located within a designated hospitality zone in the City and County of San Francisco, as defined. In order to authorize the issuance of additional licenses as described above, the bill would require an ordinance adopted by the local governing body of the City and County of San Francisco to designate or modify a hospitality zone to include specified information and findings. The bill would authorize the local governing body, in an ordinance designating or modifying a hospitality zone, to further limit, among other things, the maximum number of additional licenses to be issued within its hospitality zone. The bill would require the local governing body to submit the ordinance to the department upon the adoption of an ordinance to modify or repeal a hospitality zone. The bill would require any ordinance to establish, modify, or repeal a hospitality zone to be effective commencing the following July 1. The bill would require the department to follow specified procedures concerning the issuance of these licenses, and would authorize the department to designate these licenses as on-sale general for special use. The bill would prohibit licenses issued under its provisions from being, among other things, transferred from one county to another. If one of those licenses is canceled or revoked, the bill would authorize the department to issue an additional license. The bill would prohibit the department from issuing any license under these provisions after July 1, 2033. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco.

Introduced
2025-02-14
Latest action
2025-10-06 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 412, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Wienerauthor
  • Gipsoncoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-14

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

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  2. 2025-02-18

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.

  3. 2025-02-26

    Referred to Com. on G.O.

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  4. 2025-03-27

    Set for hearing April 8.

  5. 2025-03-28

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O.

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  6. 2025-04-08

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0. Page 703.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  7. 2025-04-09

    Set for hearing April 21.

  8. 2025-04-21

    From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.

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  9. 2025-04-22

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  10. 2025-05-27

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1238.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  11. 2025-05-28

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  12. 2025-06-05

    Referred to Com. on G.O.

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  13. 2025-06-18

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O.

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  14. 2025-06-30

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O.

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  15. 2025-07-10

    Coauthors revised.

  16. 2025-07-10

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 22. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  17. 2025-08-20

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20).

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  18. 2025-08-21

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  19. 2025-08-28

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 7277.) Ordered to the Senate.

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  20. 2025-08-28

    In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  21. 2025-09-02

    Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2408.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  22. 2025-09-09

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

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  23. 2025-10-06

    Approved by the Governor.

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  24. 2025-10-06

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 412, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/14/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-14Compare
  • 03/28/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-03-28Compare
  • 06/18/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-06-18Compare
  • 06/30/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-06-30Compare
  • 09/04/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-04Compare
  • 10/06/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-06Compare
  • SB395Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-04-08 · pass · 15-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Ashby: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes

  • 3rd Reading

    2025-05-27 · pass · 39-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Reyes: other

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-07-09 · pass · 22-0

    Member-level votes (22)
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Davies: yes

  • Do pass.

    2025-08-20 · pass · 15-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Fong: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Mark González: yes

  • SB 395 Wiener Senate Third Reading By Haney

    2025-08-28 · pass · 74-0

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Alvarez: other
    • Berman: other
    • Valencia: other
    • Bains: other
    • Ramos: other

  • Unfinished Business SB395 Wiener et al. Concurrence

    2025-09-02 · pass · 40-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes

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