republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-1323.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage control: tied-house exceptions."
description: "Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, generally prohibits a manufacturer, winegrower, distiller, bottler, or wholesaler, among other licensees, or agents of these licensees, from paying a retailer for advertising. Existing law creates a variety of exceptions from this prohibition, including permitting specified alcoholic beverage licensees to purchase advertising space and time in connection with a special on-sale retail licensed premises that is a historic theater located in the City and County of San Francisco that meets specified conditions. Among those conditions is that the premises be configured with theatrical seating of at least 2,100 seats."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 1323"
citation: "California AB 1323 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic beverage control: tied-house exceptions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Haney"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 29
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-02-19"
last_action: "2022-09-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05f15dd0-4098-4ef5-b657-aeb6ed15abf9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1323"
source_hash: "1080dea27e92ba8a87011b2e26187ed78d7eac24c1d93e68b4d8c50863d8980a"
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 1323 (20212022) — Alcoholic beverage control: tied-house exceptions.

Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, generally prohibits a manufacturer, winegrower, distiller, bottler, or wholesaler, among other licensees, or agents of these licensees, from paying a retailer for advertising. Existing law creates a variety of exceptions from this prohibition, including permitting specified alcoholic beverage licensees to purchase advertising space and time in connection with a special on-sale retail licensed premises that is a historic theater located in the City and County of San Francisco that meets specified conditions. Among those conditions is that the premises be configured with theatrical seating of at least 2,100 seats.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1323&version=20210AB132399INT)
2. **03/22/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1323&version=20210AB132398AMD)
3. **03/26/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1323&version=20210AB132397AMD)
4. **06/21/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1323&version=20210AB132396AMD)
5. **09/13/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1323&version=20210AB132394CHP)
6. **AB1323** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1323)
7. **09/01/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1323&version=20210AB132395ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1323 Chiu Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Accountability and Administrative Review] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB1323 — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1323 Haney Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Haney — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-19** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2021-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2021-03-18** Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and A. & A.R. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-03-23** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-03-29** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-12** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1690.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-06-09** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-20** 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`
- **2022-06-23** Senate Rule 26 invoked. (Haney).
- **2022-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-01** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2022-08-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4679.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-08** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2022-08-18** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-29** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (August 29). `committee-passage`
- **2022-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-09-07** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 271, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/05f15dd0-4098-4ef5-b657-aeb6ed15abf9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).