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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions."
+description: "(1) Existing law, known as tied-house restrictions, prohibits specified licensees from furnishing, giving, or lending money or other things of value, directly or indirectly, to a person engaged in operating, owning, or maintaining an off-sale licensed premises. Existing law permits, until January 1, 2016, the appearance of a person employed or engaged by an authorized licensee at a promotional event held at the premises of an off-sale retail licensee for the purposes of providing autographs, subject to specified conditions. Existing law generally prohibits a winegrower, a California winegrower's agent, importer, or other specified parties from providing a licensee alcoholic beverages as a free good as a part of any sale or transaction involving alcoholic beverages or furnishing anything of value to a licensee for specified purposes. Existing law excepts from this prohibition a winegrower, California winegrower's agent, importer, or other specified parties when conducting or participating in an instructional event for consumers held at a retailer's premises featuring wines produced by or for the winegrower or imported by the importer, subject to specified conditions. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that a violation of any of its provisions for which another penalty or punishment is not specifically provided is a misdemeanor."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20132014"
+identifier: "AB 636"
+citation: "California AB 636 (20132014)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hall"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2013-02-20"
+last_action: "2013-09-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5736b3b4-4669-4464-ad87-cc60c8a6337e"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB636"
+source_hash: "540fd98fd39df76709a89f117d5aa3218c380fb8cc6831d06a0b53f4e983ba0e"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 636 (20132014) — Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions.
+
+(1) Existing law, known as tied-house restrictions, prohibits specified licensees from furnishing, giving, or lending money or other things of value, directly or indirectly, to a person engaged in operating, owning, or maintaining an off-sale licensed premises. Existing law permits, until January 1, 2016, the appearance of a person employed or engaged by an authorized licensee at a promotional event held at the premises of an off-sale retail licensee for the purposes of providing autographs, subject to specified conditions. Existing law generally prohibits a winegrower, a California winegrower's agent, importer, or other specified parties from providing a licensee alcoholic beverages as a free good as a part of any sale or transaction involving alcoholic beverages or furnishing anything of value to a licensee for specified purposes. Existing law excepts from this prohibition a winegrower, California winegrower's agent, importer, or other specified parties when conducting or participating in an instructional event for consumers held at a retailer's premises featuring wines produced by or for the winegrower or imported by the importer, subject to specified conditions. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that a violation of any of its provisions for which another penalty or punishment is not specifically provided is a misdemeanor.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/20/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB636&version=20130AB63699INT)
+2. **08/15/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB636&version=20130AB63698AMD)
+3. **09/23/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB636&version=20130AB63696CHP)
+4. **AB636** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB636)
+5. **09/05/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB636&version=20130AB63697ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 636 HALL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB636 Hall By Wright — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 636 HALL Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hall — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2013-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2013-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
+- **2013-03-04** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
+- **2013-04-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2013-05-02** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2013-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2013-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1342.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2013-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2013-05-23** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
+- **2013-06-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2013-06-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2013-06-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2013-08-15** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2013-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2013-08-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1983.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2013-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2013-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2776.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2013-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
+- **2013-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2013-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 329, Statutes of 2013.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5736b3b4-4669-4464-ad87-cc60c8a6337e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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