---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverages: licensees."
description: "Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, authorizes a licensed beer manufacturer or wholesaler to sell beer from wagons or trucks to licensees authorized to sell beer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 233"
citation: "California AB 233 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholicbeverages", "licensees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gipson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-07-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f01bb47-30dd-46bf-9211-d79f8705f4b2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB233"
source_hash: "e9d5e0107b72bf25e30727e606aceb81f6db486e5c2dcc516afa7984acdea9f8"
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 233 (20252026) — Alcoholic beverages: licensees.

Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, authorizes a licensed beer manufacturer or wholesaler to sell beer from wagons or trucks to licensees authorized to sell beer.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/13/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB233&version=20250AB23399INT)
2. **07/14/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB233&version=20250AB23397CHP)
3. **AB233** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB233)
4. **07/01/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB233&version=20250AB23398ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 233 Gipson Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **19–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gipson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-14** From printer. May be heard in committee February 13.
- **2025-02-10** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-10** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1278.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-07** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-23** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-06-24** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1808.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-27** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2025-07-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2025-07-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 30, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2f01bb47-30dd-46bf-9211-d79f8705f4b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).