---
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 that this prohibition does not apply if the alcoholic beverage is possessed, consumed, or sold, pursuant to a license or permit, for special events held at the facilities of a public community college located in a county of the first, 4th, or 10th class."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 319"
citation: "California AB 319 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic beverage control: public schoolhouses."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Norby"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2011-02-09"
last_action: "2011-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44bf7390-935b-496e-bd00-39e33198e895"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB319"
source_hash: "417f907a86b4594e4aebe3a37922dcbc4f31b23d8a4f7b1f154f1e75d12d40a1"
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 319 (20112012) — 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 that this prohibition does not apply if the alcoholic beverage is possessed, consumed, or sold, pursuant to a license or permit, for special events held at the facilities of a public community college located in a county of the first, 4th, or 10th class.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/09/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB319&version=20110AB31999INT)
2. **03/14/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB319&version=20110AB31998AMD)
3. **04/04/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB319&version=20110AB31997AMD)
4. **08/29/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB319&version=20110AB31996AMD)
5. **10/09/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB319&version=20110AB31994CHP)
6. **AB319** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB319)
7. **09/19/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB319&version=20110AB31995ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB319 Norby By Hernandez — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 319 NORBY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 319 NORBY Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Norby — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-10** From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
- **2011-02-24** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-15** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-30** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2011-04-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-05** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-18** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1568.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-15** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2011-08-16** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-08-18** From consent calendar.
- **2011-08-18** Ordered to third reading.
- **2011-08-29** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-09-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2358.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-09-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2011-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3070.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2011-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 672, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44bf7390-935b-496e-bd00-39e33198e895`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).