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Bill	Business pandemic relief.	(1) Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and regulates the granting of licenses for the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages within the state. The act requires the department to make and prescribe rules to carry out the purposes and intent of existing state constitutional provisions on the regulation of alcoholic beverages, and to enable the department to exercise the powers and perform the duties conferred upon it by the state constitution and the act, not inconsistent with any statute of this state. The act makes it unlawful for any person other than a licensee of the department to sell, manufacture, or import alcoholic beverages in this state, with exceptions. The department, pursuant to its powers and in furtherance of emergency declarations and orders of the Governor under the California Emergency Services Act regarding the spread of the COVID-19 virus, has established prescribed temporary relief measures to suspend certain legal restrictions relating to, among other things, the expansion of a licensed footprint, sales of alcoholic beverages to-go, and delivery privileges.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 61	California AB 61 (20212022)	bill	Business pandemic relief.	enacted	Gabriel	12	39	10	2020-12-07	2021-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/ccfa4292-eb52-4f21-902e-179699960442	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB61	08632c13fb3b92471bd7b1b51090bbc0ccf7e7b462154c262e833910af8324ea	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 61 (20212022) — Business pandemic relief.

(1) Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and regulates the granting of licenses for the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages within the state. The act requires the department to make and prescribe rules to carry out the purposes and intent of existing state constitutional provisions on the regulation of alcoholic beverages, and to enable the department to exercise the powers and perform the duties conferred upon it by the state constitution and the act, not inconsistent with any statute of this state. The act makes it unlawful for any person other than a licensee of the department to sell, manufacture, or import alcoholic beverages in this state, with exceptions. The department, pursuant to its powers and in furtherance of emergency declarations and orders of the Governor under the California Emergency Services Act regarding the spread of the COVID-19 virus, has established prescribed temporary relief measures to suspend certain legal restrictions relating to, among other things, the expansion of a licensed footprint, sales of alcoholic beverages to-go, and delivery privileges.

Version chain

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

1. 12/07/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/16/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/14/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/03/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/24/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/23/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/05/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/15/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/26/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 10/08/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. AB61 (committee substitute) — source
12. 09/13/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 61 Gabriel Concurrence - Urgency Added — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 61 Gabriel Assembly Third Reading — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Health] — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB61 Gabriel et al. By Wiener Urgency Clause — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gabriel — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Bates — coauthor (person)
• Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Burke — coauthor (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Cooper — coauthor (person)
• Cunningham — coauthor (person)
• Daly — coauthor (person)
• Davies — coauthor (person)
• Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Flora — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — author (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Hertzberg — principal coauthor (person)
• Nazarian — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Smith — coauthor (person)
• Valladares — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-12-08 From printer. May be heard in committee January 7.
• 2021-02-12 Referred to Coms. on G.O. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-02-16 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
• 2021-02-17 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 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
• 2021-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2021-04-15 Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1023.)
• 2021-04-15 (pending re-refer to Com. on HEALTH.)
• 2021-04-23 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 27). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-03 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-04 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-05-04 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-05-12 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-05-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1747.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Coms. on G.O., HEALTH and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2021-06-09 Action rescinded whereby the bill was referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2021-06-22 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-06-23 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 14). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-08-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-03 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2488.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3002.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 651, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ccfa4292-eb52-4f21-902e-179699960442. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).