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California AB 1812 (20112012) — Alcoholic beverages: beer.

Existing law defines "beer" for purposes of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act and specifically includes ale, porter, brown, stout, lager beer, small beer, and strong beer within that definition.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/13/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB1812 (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/05/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1812 CHESBRO Assembly Third Reading — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chesbro — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2012-03-01 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2012-03-27 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
• 2012-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2012-05-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4777.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-10 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-24 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2012-06-26 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-07-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4222.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-07-02 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2012-07-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:20 p.m.
• 2012-07-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-07-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 96, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e497c391-e86b-489c-b047-e391151f4883. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).