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Bill	Agave spirits: labeling.	Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application, issuance, and suspension of alcoholic beverage licenses. The act prescribes various requirements and prohibitions with regard to labeling alcoholic beverages and, with regard to wine, prescribes labeling requirements relating to the area of origin of the grapes used to produce the wine. Existing law generally provides that a violation of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act for which another punishment is not otherwise provided is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2303	California AB 2303 (20212022)	bill	Agave spirits: labeling.	enacted	Aguiar-Curry	5	21	6	2022-02-16	2022-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/bd53b932-7d3e-41c4-877f-827219258107	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2303	306a590b7d7794cf1a2ace3e624c561ee2c96fd3ad99aef1cd7dd87eff4a5992	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2303 (20212022) — Agave spirits: labeling.

Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application, issuance, and suspension of alcoholic beverage licenses. The act prescribes various requirements and prohibitions with regard to labeling alcoholic beverages and, with regard to wine, prescribes labeling requirements relating to the area of origin of the grapes used to produce the wine. Existing law generally provides that a violation of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act for which another punishment is not otherwise provided is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/21/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/28/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB2303 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/24/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2303 Aguiar-Curry Assembly Third Reading — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2303 Aguiar-Curry et al. By Dodd — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2303 Aguiar-Curry Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Aguiar-Curry — primary (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Patterson — 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.
• 2022-03-03 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2022-03-31 Coauthors revised.
• 2022-03-31 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (March 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4839.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2022-06-20 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-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-01 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4873.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-18 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5979.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-29 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2022-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 694, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bd53b932-7d3e-41c4-877f-827219258107. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).