---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage control: public schoolhouses."
description: "Existing law generally prohibits the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages at a public schoolhouse or any grounds thereof. Existing law provides for various exceptions to this prohibition, including wine that is produced by a bonded winery owned or operated as part of an instructional program in viticulture and enology."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 228"
citation: "California SB 228 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic beverage control: public schoolhouses."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dodd"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-02-02"
last_action: "2017-07-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f999ef75-ec68-4b0d-8747-93970ee759c4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB228"
source_hash: "2dccf68cc96c520440e382b99a8f9d753549dee5dab44e558792fc7917cd8caf"
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 SB 228 (20172018) — Alcoholic beverage control: public schoolhouses.

Existing law generally prohibits the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages at a public schoolhouse or any grounds thereof. Existing law provides for various exceptions to this prohibition, including wine that is produced by a bonded winery owned or operated as part of an instructional program in viticulture and enology.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/02/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB228&version=20170SB22899INT)
2. **04/17/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB228&version=20170SB22898AMD)
3. **07/24/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB228&version=20170SB22896CHP)
4. **SB228** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB228)
5. **07/06/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB228&version=20170SB22897ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 228 Dodd Senate Third Reading By AGUIAR-CURRY — **66–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **16–1** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB228 Dodd et al. — **38–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dodd — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-02** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-03** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 5.
- **2017-02-16** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Set for hearing April 25.
- **2017-04-17** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2017-04-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 826.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-01** Set for hearing May 8.
- **2017-05-03** May 8 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2017-05-04** Set for hearing May 15.
- **2017-05-08** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-15** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 1. Page 1065.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-16** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-26** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-07-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 66. Noes 1. Page 2432.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-07-03** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2017-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2017-07-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 119, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f999ef75-ec68-4b0d-8747-93970ee759c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).