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Bill	Alcoholic beverage control: licensing exemption: apprenticeship program for bartending or mixology.	Existing law generally prohibits anyone from manufacturing, importing, or selling alcoholic beverages in California without a license from the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Existing law creates certain exceptions from this proscription, including by allowing the service of alcohol without a license or permit in a limousine or as part of a hot air balloon ride service, provided there is no extra charge or fee for the alcoholic beverages.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2378	California AB 2378 (20232024)	bill	Alcoholic beverage control apprenticeship program for bartending or mixology licensing exemption	enacted	Calderon	7	22	6	2024-02-12	2024-09-20	openstates	ocd-bill/14b47acc-774d-4c61-bbf6-a6f21a4e6995	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2378	867df52faebf340f8d3933943c601bc250fc0aee4d4ac9bc5cfd00a51c5554d6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2378 (20232024) — Alcoholic beverage control: licensing exemption: apprenticeship program for bartending or mixology.

Existing law generally prohibits anyone from manufacturing, importing, or selling alcoholic beverages in California without a license from the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Existing law creates certain exceptions from this proscription, including by allowing the service of alcohol without a license or permit in a limousine or as part of a hot air balloon ride service, provided there is no extra charge or fee for the alcoholic beverages.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/21/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/29/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/20/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2378 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/26/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2378 Calderon Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2378 Calderon By Durazo — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2378 Calderon Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Calderon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-13 From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
• 2024-03-18 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2024-03-18 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
• 2024-03-19 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2024-04-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-17 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 17). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-18 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4998.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-04-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-08 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2024-05-21 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
• 2024-05-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-05-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-10 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-06-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5200.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-20 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 0. Page 6423.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-28 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 309, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/14b47acc-774d-4c61-bbf6-a6f21a4e6995. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).