republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-600.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions: advertising."
description: "Existing law generally prohibits a manufacturer of alcoholic beverages and a winegrower from paying, crediting, or compensating a retailer for advertising or paying or giving anything of value for the privilege of placing a sign or advertisement with a retail licensee. It authorizes, as an exception, the holder of a winegrower's license, a beer manufacturer, a distilled spirits manufacturer, or a distilled spirits manufacturer's agent, to purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, an on-sale retail licensee, under certain conditions, if the on-sale retail licensee is the owner, manager, agent of the owner, assignee of the owner's advertising rights, or major tenant of specified facilities. Existing law specifies that any coercion or other illegal means to induce the purchase of advertising, permitted under this section by a specified licensee, is a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 600"
citation: "California AB 600 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions: advertising."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bonta"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2013-02-20"
last_action: "2014-07-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e32bf6cd-048b-4a23-bf73-67e58ad20551"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB600"
source_hash: "b5d5720ea85fd0420bdf6926222c8710facf9b7c9e201b59c0de62697e27e15b"
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 600 (20132014) — Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions: advertising.

Existing law generally prohibits a manufacturer of alcoholic beverages and a winegrower from paying, crediting, or compensating a retailer for advertising or paying or giving anything of value for the privilege of placing a sign or advertisement with a retail licensee. It authorizes, as an exception, the holder of a winegrower's license, a beer manufacturer, a distilled spirits manufacturer, or a distilled spirits manufacturer's agent, to purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, an on-sale retail licensee, under certain conditions, if the on-sale retail licensee is the owner, manager, agent of the owner, assignee of the owner's advertising rights, or major tenant of specified facilities. Existing law specifies that any coercion or other illegal means to induce the purchase of advertising, permitted under this section by a specified licensee, is a crime.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB600&version=20130AB60099INT)
2. **03/17/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB600&version=20130AB60096AMD)
3. **03/19/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB600&version=20130AB60098AMD)
4. **05/28/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB600&version=20130AB60097AMD)
5. **07/18/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB600&version=20130AB60094CHP)
6. **AB600** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB600)
7. **07/02/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB600&version=20130AB60095ENR)

## Votes

- amendments be concurred in. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #16 AB600 Bonta By Corbett — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 600 BONTA Concurrence - Urgency Added — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 600 BONTA Assembly Third Reading — **71–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bonta — primary (person)
- Corbett — principal coauthor (person)
- Wieckowski — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2013-03-19** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-15** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2013-04-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-28** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1651.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 2. Page 1791.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-06-13** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-27** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2014-03-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-03-18** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2014-03-18** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-27** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-19** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2014-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-06-04** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2014-06-05** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 3757.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-06-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-06-09** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-26** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 25). `committee-passage`
- **2014-06-30** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5738.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-07-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2014-07-18** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-07-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 139, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e32bf6cd-048b-4a23-bf73-67e58ad20551`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).