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Bill	Tied-house restrictions: advertising exceptions: County of Kings.	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. Existing law, known as tied-house restrictions, generally prohibits specified licensees, or their officers, directors, or agents, from giving or lending money or a thing of value to a person operating, owning, or maintaining any on-sale premises where alcoholic beverages are sold. In this regard, existing law specifically prohibits paying a retailer for advertising. Existing law creates a variety of exceptions to this prohibition, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1294	California AB 1294 (20232024)	bill	County of Kings Tied-house restrictions advertising exceptions	enacted	Boerner	7	26	6	2023-02-16	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/981f81d5-cd4b-4da8-8e15-55799e408100	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1294	f5fe60849168f9bbccb6ac725e6178c87c868796a25ba41bf00fa79787f30ffd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1294 (20232024) — Tied-house restrictions: advertising exceptions: County of Kings.

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. Existing law, known as tied-house restrictions, generally prohibits specified licensees, or their officers, directors, or agents, from giving or lending money or a thing of value to a person operating, owning, or maintaining any on-sale premises where alcoholic beverages are sold. In this regard, existing law specifically prohibits paying a retailer for advertising. Existing law creates a variety of exceptions to this prohibition, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/31/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/10/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1294 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/12/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1294 Boerner Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1294 Boerner Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1294 Boerner et al. By Hurtado — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Boerner — primary (person)
• Hurtado — coauthor (person)
• Mathis — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2023-03-09 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2023-03-22 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-03-23 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
• 2023-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2023-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-20 Measure version as amended on March 23 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2023-04-26 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1463.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-17 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2023-05-31 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
• 2023-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-06-26 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-07-10 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-07-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2390.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-06 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2023-09-07 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3011.)
• 2023-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3173.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 471, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/981f81d5-cd4b-4da8-8e15-55799e408100. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).