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SB 930 · 2021-22

Creates pilot for later alcohol sales hours

Official subject Alcoholic beverages: hours of sale.

Didn't pass Passed Senate, stopped in Assembly · Failed a floor vote

Plain-language summary

Creates a pilot program from 2025 through 2027 in San Francisco, West Hollywood, and Palm Springs. The state may issue additional hours licenses allowing alcohol sales until 4 a.m. on weekends and holidays and 3 a.m. other days, once each city completes required steps. Applications may be protested. The Highway Patrol and cities must report on regional impacts.

How these summaries are written

Subject changed

This bill originally dealt with Housing Accountability Act rules; it was rewritten to cover later alcohol sales hours.

Official summary · Legislative Counsel's Digest

Describes the final version (Amended Assembly, Aug. 18, 2022).

Read the official summary (6 paragraphs)

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that any on- or off-sale licensee, or agent or employee of the licensee, who sells, gives, or delivers to any person any alcoholic beverage between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. of the same day, and any person who knowingly purchases any alcoholic beverages between those hours, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law provides for moneys collected as fees pursuant to the act to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund, with those moneys generally allocated to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control upon appropriation by the Legislature.

This bill, beginning January 1, 2025, and before January 2, 2028, would require the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to conduct a pilot program that would authorize the department to issue an additional hours license to an on-sale licensee located in a qualified city that would authorize, with or without conditions, the selling, giving, or purchasing of alcoholic beverages at the licensed premises between the hours of 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. on weekends and specified holidays, and between the hours of 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. on all other days upon completion of specified requirements by the qualified city in which the licensee is located. The bill would impose specified fees related to the license to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund. The bill would require the applicant to notify specified persons of the application for an additional hours license and would provide a procedure for protest and hearing regarding the application. The bill would require the Department of the California Highway Patrol and each qualified city that has elected to participate in the program to submit reports to the Legislature and specified committees regarding the regional impact of the additional hours licenses, as specified. The bill would provide that any person under 21 years of age who enters and remains in the licensed public premises during the additional serving hour without lawful business therein is guilty of a misdemeanor, as provided. The pilot program would apply to the Cities of Palm Springs and West Hollywood and the City and County of San Francisco.

This bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating new crimes.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the qualified cities.

Official title

An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 25631 of, and to add and repeal Section 25634 of, the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.

Timeline

  1. Feb. 7, 2022 Introduced
  2. May 9, 2022 Passed Senate 31 yes, 0 no
  3. Aug. 24, 2022 Stopped in the Assembly Failed a floor vote
Full official history (23 actions)
  1. Feb. 7, 2022 Introduced: Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
  2. Feb. 7, 2022 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
  3. Feb. 7, 2022 (Ayes 31. Noes 6.)
  4. Feb. 7, 2022 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)
  5. Feb. 8, 2022 From printer.
  6. Feb. 16, 2022 Referred to Com. on HOUSING.
  7. April 18, 2022 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
  8. April 19, 2022 Set for hearing April 27.
  9. April 27, 2022 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3544.) (April 27).
  10. April 28, 2022 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  11. May 9, 2022 Passed Senate: Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 3644.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  12. May 9, 2022 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  13. June 2, 2022 Referred to Com. on G.O.
  14. June 2, 2022 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O.
  15. June 23, 2022 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  16. Aug. 3, 2022 August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
  17. Aug. 11, 2022 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (August 11).
  18. Aug. 15, 2022 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
  19. Aug. 16, 2022 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  20. Aug. 18, 2022 Read third time and amended.
  21. Aug. 18, 2022 Ordered to third reading.
  22. Aug. 24, 2022 Read third time. Refused passage.
  23. Aug. 24, 2022 Motion to reconsider made by Assembly Member Haney.