republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-509.md

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Bill	Alcoholic beverages: minors.	Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, establishes the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control for the regulation of licenses or the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages within the state. Existing law prescribes various penalties for violations of the act, including that every person who sells, furnishes, gives, or causes to be sold, furnished, or given away any alcoholic beverage to any person under 21 years of age is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law provides that a licensee's acceptance of bona fide evidence, as defined, or utilization of a biometric system constitutes a defense to any prosecution or proceedings against the licensee, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 509	California AB 509 (20252026)	bill	Alcoholicbeverages minors	enacted	Flora	6	28	8	2025-02-10	2025-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/f2d4a785-8bff-4acd-ab69-3ec9a39be7eb	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB509	ef90eaef8c3a8bfd407c91a642d9c339d8368ce738951e178b600266978035e5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 509 (20252026) — Alcoholic beverages: minors.

Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, establishes the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control for the regulation of licenses or the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages within the state. Existing law prescribes various penalties for violations of the act, including that every person who sells, furnishes, gives, or causes to be sold, furnished, or given away any alcoholic beverage to any person under 21 years of age is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law provides that a licensee's acceptance of bona fide evidence, as defined, or utilization of a biometric system constitutes a defense to any prosecution or proceedings against the licensee, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/16/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/03/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB509 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/10/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 509 Flora Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB509 Flora By Rubio — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 509 Flora Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Flora — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-11 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
• 2025-02-24 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2025-03-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (March 19). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-03-27 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1922.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-11 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2025-06-16 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
• 2025-06-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-09 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2025-09-03 From special consent calendar.
• 2025-09-03 Ordered to third reading.
• 2025-09-04 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2025-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2524.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-04 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3026.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2025-10-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 264, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f2d4a785-8bff-4acd-ab69-3ec9a39be7eb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).