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Bill	Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions: opera houses.	The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act contains limitations on sales commonly known as "tied-house" restrictions, which generally prohibit a manufacturer, winegrower, manufacturer's agent, California winegrower's agent, rectifier, bottler, importer, or wholesaler from furnishing, giving, or lending any money or other thing of value to any person engaged in operating, owning, or maintaining any on-sale licensed premises. Existing law authorizes specific exceptions to this prohibition, including exceptions for donations to nonprofit corporations.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 1531	California SB 1531 (20112012)	bill	Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions: opera houses.	enacted	Wolk	9	29	6	2012-02-24	2012-09-14	openstates	ocd-bill/a3b23cb8-e1a3-47eb-b5dc-169022b865bf	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1531	e7347fcb708648cf45dd1be0067b2ea01d21c1de9f0e20c13e178e092cd3f4ab	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1531 (20112012) — Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions: opera houses.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act contains limitations on sales commonly known as "tied-house" restrictions, which generally prohibit a manufacturer, winegrower, manufacturer's agent, California winegrower's agent, rectifier, bottler, importer, or wholesaler from furnishing, giving, or lending any money or other thing of value to any person engaged in operating, owning, or maintaining any on-sale licensed premises. Existing law authorizes specific exceptions to this prohibition, including exceptions for donations to nonprofit corporations.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/16/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/20/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/05/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/06/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/20/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/14/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB1531 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/27/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB1531 Wolk Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 1531 Wolk Senate Third Reading By CHESBRO — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #11 — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wolk — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-24 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2012-02-26 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
• 2012-02-27 Read first time. reading-1
• 2012-03-22 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2012-04-16 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2012-04-20 Set for hearing May 8.
• 2012-05-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3446.) (May 8). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-23 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2012-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3666.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2012-06-07 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2012-06-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-07-03 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-09 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 8). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-16 From consent calendar.
• 2012-08-16 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-20 Read third time and amended. (Page 6003.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-20 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6124.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-22 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2012-08-23 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4772.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2012-09-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 334, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a3b23cb8-e1a3-47eb-b5dc-169022b865bf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).