---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage licensees."
description: "Alcoholic beverage licensees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 2293"
citation: "California AB 2293 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic beverage licensees."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["De Leon"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 40
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2008-02-21"
last_action: "2008-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8be7c1a5-05b2-46f0-a6c9-49416f3f272b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2293"
source_hash: "6e1c3e07ce15c68c30ac9734295409591d79c2395eb62f70de591744a430e302"
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 2293 (20072008) — Alcoholic beverage licensees.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/21/08 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2293&version=20070AB229399INT)
2. **04/03/08 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2293&version=20070AB229398AMD)
3. **04/10/08 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2293&version=20070AB229397AMD)
4. **04/23/08 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2293&version=20070AB229396AMD)
5. **04/28/08 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2293&version=20070AB229395AMD)
6. **05/19/08 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2293&version=20070AB229394AMD)
7. **05/28/08 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2293&version=20070AB229393AMD)
8. **06/10/08 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2293&version=20070AB229392AMD)
9. **08/06/08 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2293&version=20070AB229391AMD)
10. **08/14/08 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2293&version=20070AB229390AMD)
11. **08/27/08 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2293&version=20070AB229389AMD)
12. **09/30/08 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2293&version=20070AB229387CHP)
13. **AB2293** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2293)
14. **09/11/08 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2293&version=20070AB229388ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2293 DE LEON Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2293 De Leon By Padilla — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2293 DE LEON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- De Leon — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2008-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2008-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2008-04-03** Referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization. `referral-committee`
- **2008-04-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2008-04-07** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization. `referral-committee`
- **2008-04-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2008-04-14** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization. `referral-committee`
- **2008-04-22** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 16). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2008-04-23** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage`
- **2008-04-24** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2008-04-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2008-04-29** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2008-05-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2008-05-20** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2008-05-22** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2008-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 22). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-05-28** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Page 5433.). `reading-1, reading-3, amendment-passage`
- **2008-05-28** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2008-05-28** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Ayes 46. Noes 30. Page 5514.)
- **2008-06-09** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 5). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2008-06-10** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage`
- **2008-06-11** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2008-06-12** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 1. Page 5710.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-06-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2008-06-19** Referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization. `referral-committee`
- **2008-06-24** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2008-06-30** Joint Rule 61(b)(13) suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 4512.)
- **2008-08-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Governmental Organization. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2008-08-11** (Corrected August 8.)
- **2008-08-13** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) . `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2008-08-14** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2008-08-22** Joint Rule 61(b)(15) suspended. (Page 5311.)
- **2008-08-26** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 5.) . `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2008-08-27** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage`
- **2008-08-29** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 9. Page 5469.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2008-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 52. Noes 18. Page 7109.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2008-09-18** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2008-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2008-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 638, Statutes of 2008.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8be7c1a5-05b2-46f0-a6c9-49416f3f272b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).