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Bill	Sale of shochu.	The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides for the issuance of various categories of alcoholic beverage licenses, including the imposition of fees, conditions, and restrictions in connection with the issuance of those licenses. The act provides that any on-sale licensee authorized to sell wine may also sell soju, an imported Korean alcoholic beverage that contains not more than 24% of alcohol by volume and is derived from agricultural products.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 416	California AB 416 (20232024)	bill	Sale of shochu	enacted	Muratsuchi	4	18	5	2023-02-02	2023-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/26ee2182-848f-4693-9c1a-1ca03d5e2b45	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB416	fb27bf080a803700e9c4b9bc73c7394b1f4bcc151f1cf7e89f45915d721481be	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 416 (20232024) — Sale of shochu.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides for the issuance of various categories of alcoholic beverage licenses, including the imposition of fees, conditions, and restrictions in connection with the issuance of those licenses. The act provides that any on-sale licensee authorized to sell wine may also sell soju, an imported Korean alcoholic beverage that contains not more than 24% of alcohol by volume and is derived from agricultural products.

Version chain

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

1. 02/02/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 10/10/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB416 (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/11/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB416 Muratsuchi et al. By Durazo — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 416 Muratsuchi Consent Calendar Second Day — 60–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Muratsuchi — primary (person)
• Santiago — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-02 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-03 From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
• 2023-02-09 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2023-03-09 Coauthors revised.
• 2023-03-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (March 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-03-22 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 22). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-23 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 1008.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-03-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-03 Referred to Com. on G.O. 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
• 2023-09-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2482.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-07 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2023-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2023-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 653, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/26ee2182-848f-4693-9c1a-1ca03d5e2b45. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).