republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-3069.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tied-house restrictions: advertising exceptions: City of Oceanside."
description: "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, including permitting specified licensees to purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, an on-sale licensee that is the owner, manager, agent or assignee of the owner, or major tenant of the owner of certain venues. Existing law makes specified violations of these advertising provisions punishable as a misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 3069"
citation: "California AB 3069 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["City of Oceanside", "Tied-house restrictions", "advertising exceptions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Davies"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-02-16"
last_action: "2024-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89b7258e-7b40-4bcd-9032-1408b14ebe69"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3069"
source_hash: "368364de037ef1bea47ca5564aba5d7363e5b512ff331ef5ad415ad678dd28b6"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 3069 (20232024) — Tied-house restrictions: advertising exceptions: City of Oceanside.

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, including permitting specified licensees to purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, an on-sale licensee that is the owner, manager, agent or assignee of the owner, or major tenant of the owner of certain venues. Existing law makes specified violations of these advertising provisions punishable as a misdemeanor.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3069&version=20230AB306999INT)
2. **05/24/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3069&version=20230AB306998AMD)
3. **09/22/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3069&version=20230AB306996CHP)
4. **AB3069** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3069)
5. **09/03/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3069&version=20230AB306997ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 3069 Vince Fong Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB3069 Davies By Blakespear Urgency Clause — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 3069 Davies Concurrence - Urgency Added — **76–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Davies — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2024-03-11** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4661.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-04-08** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-01** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-17** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2024-05-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-28** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2024-05-28** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-05** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-01** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-07-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-19** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5204.). `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** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-26** Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Page 6560.)
- **2024-08-28** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (August 28). `committee-passage`
- **2024-08-29** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 429, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89b7258e-7b40-4bcd-9032-1408b14ebe69`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).