republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-2134.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage control: tied-house restrictions: instructional events: beer."
description: "The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act authorizes any person holding a manufacturer's agent's, rectifier's, importer's, or wholesaler's license to give away samples of the alcoholic beverages that are authorized to be sold under that license. Existing law provides that a retail license does not authorize the furnishing or giving away of any free samples of alcoholic beverages. Existing law permits beer manufacturers, holders of a beer and wine importer's general license, and licensed beer and wine wholesalers to instruct consumers regarding beer, respectively."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 2134"
citation: "California AB 2134 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic beverage control: tied-house restrictions: instructional events: beer."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chesbro"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2010-02-18"
last_action: "2010-08-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ef6afac-1976-4222-b669-26ab6674c195"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2134"
source_hash: "468e6d23319cdc23e292cf6ec9de47b40c253a3d28eafbb1a550496a9188e6f4"
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 2134 (20092010) — Alcoholic beverage control: tied-house restrictions: instructional events: beer.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act authorizes any person holding a manufacturer's agent's, rectifier's, importer's, or wholesaler's license to give away samples of the alcoholic beverages that are authorized to be sold under that license. Existing law provides that a retail license does not authorize the furnishing or giving away of any free samples of alcoholic beverages. Existing law permits beer manufacturers, holders of a beer and wine importer's general license, and licensed beer and wine wholesalers to instruct consumers regarding beer, respectively.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2134&version=20090AB213499INT)
2. **03/25/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2134&version=20090AB213498AMD)
3. **04/19/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2134&version=20090AB213497AMD)
4. **08/17/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2134&version=20090AB213495CHP)
5. **AB2134** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2134)
6. **08/04/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2134&version=20090AB213496ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2134 CHESBRO Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB2134 Chesbro — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chesbro — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2010-03-04** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-05** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-15** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (April 12). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-19** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-20** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-29** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-03** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-06** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5053.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-20** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-10** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-06-29** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2010-06-30** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-02** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4309.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-02** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2010-08-06** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
- **2010-08-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-08-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 149, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ef6afac-1976-4222-b669-26ab6674c195`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).