republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-2301.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage sales: beer manufacturers: licensed premises."
description: "Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, prohibits a beer manufacturer, regardless of the number of beer manufacturer licenses that are held by the beer manufacturer, as specified, from exercising any combination of specified retail privileges that would result in that beer manufacturer exercising retail privileges at more than 6 locations. Existing law prohibits an on-sale retailer that is a beer manufacturer, as specified, from purchasing alcoholic beverages for sale in this state other than from specified persons, but excepts from this prohibition the purchase of any alcoholic beverages manufactured by the beer manufacturer at a single location contiguous or adjacent to the premises of the on-sale retailer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2301"
citation: "California AB 2301 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic beverage sales: beer manufacturers: licensed premises."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wood"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-02-16"
last_action: "2022-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4a7b3a8-d647-40ad-af88-edba62c13006"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2301"
source_hash: "97b4e8af48ed666c9a6305792f93388a1f3577f29b2b6093061a65c70597fa0f"
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 2301 (20212022) — Alcoholic beverage sales: beer manufacturers: licensed premises.

Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, prohibits a beer manufacturer, regardless of the number of beer manufacturer licenses that are held by the beer manufacturer, as specified, from exercising any combination of specified retail privileges that would result in that beer manufacturer exercising retail privileges at more than 6 locations. Existing law prohibits an on-sale retailer that is a beer manufacturer, as specified, from purchasing alcoholic beverages for sale in this state other than from specified persons, but excepts from this prohibition the purchase of any alcoholic beverages manufactured by the beer manufacturer at a single location contiguous or adjacent to the premises of the on-sale retailer.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2301&version=20210AB230199INT)
2. **03/10/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2301&version=20210AB230198AMD)
3. **04/07/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2301&version=20210AB230197AMD)
4. **04/26/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2301&version=20210AB230196AMD)
5. **08/03/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2301&version=20210AB230195AMD)
6. **09/30/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2301&version=20210AB230193CHP)
7. **AB2301** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2301)
8. **08/25/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2301&version=20210AB230194ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2301 Wood Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2301 Wood Assembly Third Reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2301 Wood et al. By Jones — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wood — primary (person)
- Berman — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2022-03-10** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-10** 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-1, reading-2`
- **2022-03-14** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-07** 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-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-18** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-25** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (April 20). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-26** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-27** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 4705.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-25** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-27** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2022-06-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-03** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4954.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2022-08-23** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 60. Noes 16. Page 6056.)
- **2022-08-23** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6065.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 961, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b4a7b3a8-d647-40ad-af88-edba62c13006`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).