---
type: "Bill"
title: "Beer manufacturers: cider and perry."
description: "Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, authorizes a licensed beer manufacturer that produces more than 60,000 barrels of beer a year to manufacture cider or perry at the licensed production premises and to sell cider or perry to any licensee authorized to sell wine."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 788"
citation: "California SB 788 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Beer manufacturers", "cider and perry"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ashby"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-17"
last_action: "2023-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc8aa271-1b56-4831-831b-fe6673609bc9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB788"
source_hash: "5e545848997bd40dda5d54082ebbe0883b9b70202b88f98f4bb340550b525389"
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 788 (20232024) — Beer manufacturers: cider and perry.

Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, authorizes a licensed beer manufacturer that produces more than 60,000 barrels of beer a year to manufacture cider or perry at the licensed production premises and to sell cider or perry to any licensee authorized to sell wine.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB788&version=20230SB78899INT)
2. **07/21/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB788&version=20230SB78897CHP)
3. **SB788** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB788)
4. **07/06/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB788&version=20230SB78898ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar SB788 Ashby et al. — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 788 Ashby Consent Calendar Second Day — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **14–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ashby — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — principal coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-17** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
- **2023-03-01** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-15** Set for hearing March 28.
- **2023-03-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 546.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Set for hearing April 10.
- **2023-04-10** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2023-04-11** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-13** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 700.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-04-17** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-04** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-15** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-28** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 28). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-29** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-07-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 2541.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-07-03** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2023-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2023-07-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-07-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 114, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cc8aa271-1b56-4831-831b-fe6673609bc9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).