---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverages: places of consumption."
description: "Existing law generally prohibits the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages at a public schoolhouse or any grounds thereof. Existing law provides that this prohibition does not apply if the alcoholic beverage is possessed, consumed, or sold, pursuant to a license, for an event during the weekend or at other times when pupils are not on the grounds of an overnight retreat facility owned and operated by a county office of education in a county of the 18th or 20th class."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1860"
citation: "California AB 1860 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic beverages: places of consumption."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tom Berryhill"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2010-02-12"
last_action: "2010-09-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5bc855d-b2ea-485b-958a-77f95cf7d95e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1860"
source_hash: "2508f7d7983ece965a0497ee706122ffb95890424155b20049816f74d022134e"
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 1860 (20092010) — Alcoholic beverages: places of consumption.

Existing law generally prohibits the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages at a public schoolhouse or any grounds thereof. Existing law provides that this prohibition does not apply if the alcoholic beverage is possessed, consumed, or sold, pursuant to a license, for an event during the weekend or at other times when pupils are not on the grounds of an overnight retreat facility owned and operated by a county office of education in a county of the 18th or 20th class.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/12/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1860&version=20090AB186099INT)
2. **06/10/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1860&version=20090AB186098AMD)
3. **08/03/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1860&version=20090AB186097AMD)
4. **09/24/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1860&version=20090AB186095CHP)
5. **AB1860** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1860)
6. **08/16/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1860&version=20090AB186096ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1860 BERRYHILL, T. Concurrence- Urgency Added — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1860 Tom Berryhill — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1860 BERRYHILL, T. Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tom Berryhill — primary (person)
- Villines — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2010-02-25** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-13** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (April 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-22** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-03** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4976.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-13** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-06-22** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-02** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8, be amended, and to Consent Calendar. `amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-03** Read second time and amended. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-05** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4373.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-12** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6149.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-08-25** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:50 p.m.
- **2010-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-09-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 239, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5bc855d-b2ea-485b-958a-77f95cf7d95e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).