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Bill	Alcoholic beverages: licenses.	Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, regulates the application, issuance, and suspension of alcoholic beverage licenses by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. The act provides that a violation of its provisions is a misdemeanor, unless otherwise specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1670	California AB 1670 (20152016)	bill	Alcoholic beverages: licenses.	enacted	Dodd	6	21	6	2016-01-15	2016-09-14	openstates	ocd-bill/fdd4413c-836c-4dd2-8466-3194ea0a0960	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1670	a62b9f2dd0167a39fd6c2030a4febd7cc6b88dcd8327160b7f74e5f72285fd72	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1670 (20152016) — Alcoholic beverages: licenses.

Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, regulates the application, issuance, and suspension of alcoholic beverage licenses by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. The act provides that a violation of its provisions is a misdemeanor, unless otherwise specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/15/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/21/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/01/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/14/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1670 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/23/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1670 DODD Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1670 DODD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1670 Dodd By McGuire — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dodd — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-01-19 From printer. May be heard in committee February 18.
• 2016-02-04 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2016-04-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-20 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-21 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4593.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-05 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2016-06-14 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-06-21 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. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-01 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-08 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2016-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4973.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6027.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 347, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fdd4413c-836c-4dd2-8466-3194ea0a0960. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).