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type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage licenses: Counties of Mariposa and Napa."
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 generally prescribes the number of on-sale general licenses that the department may issue based on the population of the county in which the licensed premises are located, as provided. Existing law supplements these licenses by authorizing the department to issue additional on-sale general licenses in specified counties to bona fide public eating places based on seating capacity."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 2459"
citation: "California AB 2459 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic beverage licenses: Counties of Mariposa and Napa."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bigelow"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-02-19"
last_action: "2020-09-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/daef1a0e-4cdf-41e4-b271-acab95a6f36d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2459"
source_hash: "5432c4463aaca4e855f2a0399122ce53b24dc0a86d3b68c9353ee2d3acdb7101"
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 2459 (20192020) — Alcoholic beverage licenses: Counties of Mariposa and Napa.
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 generally prescribes the number of on-sale general licenses that the department may issue based on the population of the county in which the licensed premises are located, as provided. Existing law supplements these licenses by authorizing the department to issue additional on-sale general licenses in specified counties to bona fide public eating places based on seating capacity.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/19/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2459&version=20190AB245999INT)
2. **05/18/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2459&version=20190AB245998AMD)
3. **07/09/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2459&version=20190AB245997AMD)
4. **07/27/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2459&version=20190AB245996AMD)
5. **09/09/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2459&version=20190AB245994CHP)
6. **AB2459** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2459)
7. **08/27/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2459&version=20190AB245995ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **180** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **200** (pass) · lower
- AB 2459 Bigelow Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **730** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **160** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2459 Bigelow et al. By Dodd — **400** (pass) · upper
- AB 2459 Bigelow Consent Calendar Second Day — **760** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bigelow — primary (person)
- Borgeas — coauthor (person)
- Dodd — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2020-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2020-02-27** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-14** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 12). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-05-18** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-05-19** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-02** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-06-03** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4727.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-06-23** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-09** 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. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-07-27** 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. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-08-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2020-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4296.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2020-08-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5226.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2020-09-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 53, Statutes of 2020.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/daef1a0e-4cdf-41e4-b271-acab95a6f36d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).