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type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage control: tied-house restrictions: advertising."
description: "Existing law generally restricts certain alcoholic beverage licensees, including manufacturers and winegrowers, from paying, crediting, or compensating a retailer for advertising in connection with the advertising and sale of alcoholic beverages. Existing law expressly authorizes a beer manufacturer, holder of a winegrower's license, winegrower's agent, holder of an importer's general license, distilled spirits manufacturer, holder of a distilled spirits rectifier's general license, or a distilled spirits manufacturer's agent to sponsor events promoted by or purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, a live entertainment marketing company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of a live entertainment company that has its principal place of business in the County of Los Angeles, as provided."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 527"
citation: "California AB 527 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic beverage control: tied-house restrictions: advertising."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dodd"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-02-23"
last_action: "2015-10-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8af922cf-8e13-4140-903c-57910a63e5b9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB527"
source_hash: "6379bcd929471f1f3b5d13b6eaf03a06f40baf0d6cd024c4e3d5d41f3e0a6472"
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 527 (20152016) — Alcoholic beverage control: tied-house restrictions: advertising.
Existing law generally restricts certain alcoholic beverage licensees, including manufacturers and winegrowers, from paying, crediting, or compensating a retailer for advertising in connection with the advertising and sale of alcoholic beverages. Existing law expressly authorizes a beer manufacturer, holder of a winegrower's license, winegrower's agent, holder of an importer's general license, distilled spirits manufacturer, holder of a distilled spirits rectifier's general license, or a distilled spirits manufacturer's agent to sponsor events promoted by or purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, a live entertainment marketing company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of a live entertainment company that has its principal place of business in the County of Los Angeles, as provided.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/23/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB527&version=20150AB52799INT)
2. **04/29/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB527&version=20150AB52798AMD)
3. **05/04/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB527&version=20150AB52797AMD)
4. **09/04/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB527&version=20150AB52796AMD)
5. **10/06/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB527&version=20150AB52794CHP)
6. **AB527** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB527)
7. **09/16/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB527&version=20150AB52795ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading AB527 Dodd By Wolk — **400** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **150** (pass) · lower
- AB 527 DODD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **780** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **120** (pass) · upper
- AB 527 DODD Consent Calendar Second Day — **760** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **200** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dodd — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2015-03-05** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (April 22). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-04-29** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-30** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-05** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-20** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-21** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1594.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-04** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-17** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2015-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-04** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2703.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2015-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3141.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2015-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 517, Statutes of 2015.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8af922cf-8e13-4140-903c-57910a63e5b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).