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Bill	The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act: beer manufacturers: containers.	(1) Existing law defines a "beer manufacturer" as any person engaged in the manufacture of beer, and requires a license or permit to manufacture beer, unless the beer is manufactured for personal or family use under specified conditions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 647	California AB 647 (20132014)	bill	The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act: beer manufacturers: containers.	enacted	Chesbro	9	27	6	2013-02-21	2013-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/8b4a71d0-9a23-4261-9dcd-9ace077095bc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB647	d0d0c7c2d72b68fc0303653353ea9719d494e102950fa9590706a7dc6e49ade1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 647 (20132014) — The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act: beer manufacturers: containers.

(1) Existing law defines a "beer manufacturer" as any person engaged in the manufacture of beer, and requires a license or permit to manufacture beer, unless the beer is manufactured for personal or family use under specified conditions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/08/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/05/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/26/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/14/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/09/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB647 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/05/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 647 CHESBRO Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB647 Chesbro By Knight — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 647 CHESBRO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chesbro — primary (person)
• Knight — principal coauthor (person)
• Padilla — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2013-03-19 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2013-03-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2013-04-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2013-04-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-02 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-06 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1342.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-05-23 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2013-06-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-06-20 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-06-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-07-01 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2013-07-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-14 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1982.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-08-26 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2778.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2013-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 686, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8b4a71d0-9a23-4261-9dcd-9ace077095bc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).