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Bill	Alcoholic beverage control: licenses: nonprofit cultural film exhibition companies.	Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, authorizes the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to issue a special on-sale general license to a nonprofit theater company, subject to specified requirements. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for any on- or off-sale licensee, or agent of that licensee, to sell, give, or deliver to any persons any alcoholic beverage between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. of the same day. The act defines "public premises" to mean, among other things, a premises in which food products are only sold or served incidentally to the sale or service of alcoholic beverages and exempts an above-described nonprofit theater company from the definition.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 631	California AB 631 (20212022)	bill	Alcoholic beverage control: licenses: nonprofit cultural film exhibition companies.	enacted	Bloom	8	30	6	2021-02-12	2022-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/a6dceabe-8a96-4084-80f9-39d42c128dad	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB631	8739622bda86e77bb9aa44aacc35138f426c08c25eb3c2cbd09ba70b56fef1eb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 631 (20212022) — Alcoholic beverage control: licenses: nonprofit cultural film exhibition companies.

Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, authorizes the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to issue a special on-sale general license to a nonprofit theater company, subject to specified requirements. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for any on- or off-sale licensee, or agent of that licensee, to sell, give, or deliver to any persons any alcoholic beverage between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. of the same day. The act defines "public premises" to mean, among other things, a premises in which food products are only sold or served incidentally to the sale or service of alcoholic beverages and exempts an above-described nonprofit theater company from the definition.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/12/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/29/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/16/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB631 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/26/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB631 Bloom et al. By Portantino — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 631 Bloom Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 631 Bloom Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bloom — primary (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-13 From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2021-03-24 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
• 2021-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2021-04-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-05-19 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-27 From Consent Calendar.
• 2021-05-27 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-06-02 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Bloom.
• 2022-01-20 Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Bloom.
• 2022-01-24 From inactive file.
• 2022-01-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-01-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3432.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-02-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-05-04 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2022-05-12 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
• 2022-06-15 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
• 2022-06-28 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-06-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-16 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5003.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-23 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-24 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
• 2022-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 727, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a6dceabe-8a96-4084-80f9-39d42c128dad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).