---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverages: licenses: theaters."
description: "Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, authorizes the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to issue a special on-sale general license to any nonprofit theater company, subject to specified requirements. The act provides that a violation of its provisions is a misdemeanor, unless otherwise specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 525"
citation: "California AB 525 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic beverages: licenses: theaters."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ting"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2013-02-20"
last_action: "2013-09-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a11822b-44f8-4665-95b8-8e5aefba156a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB525"
source_hash: "85fffa0d8cd3cde9eac4bdac2959876cb912e5cc492d11a528cf58b19217d5fa"
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 525 (20132014) — Alcoholic beverages: licenses: theaters.

Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, authorizes the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to issue a special on-sale general license to any nonprofit theater company, subject to specified requirements. The act provides that a violation of its provisions is a misdemeanor, unless otherwise specified.

## 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=201320140AB525&version=20130AB52599INT)
2. **04/04/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB525&version=20130AB52598AMD)
3. **05/01/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB525&version=20130AB52597AMD)
4. **06/17/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB525&version=20130AB52596AMD)
5. **09/06/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB525&version=20130AB52594CHP)
6. **AB525** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB525)
7. **08/23/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB525&version=20130AB52595ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 525 TING Assembly Third Reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB525 Ting By Leno — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 525 TING Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ting — primary (person)
- Ammiano — coauthor (person)
- Leno — coauthor (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`
- **2013-04-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-08** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-30** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-01** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-02** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-09** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-16** From consent calendar.
- **2013-05-16** Ordered to third reading.
- **2013-05-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1521.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-29** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-17** 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, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-07-11** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2013-08-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1861.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-08-19** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2579.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-08-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
- **2013-09-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-09-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 235, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8a11822b-44f8-4665-95b8-8e5aefba156a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).