republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-631.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage control: licenses: nonprofit cultural film exhibition companies."
description: "Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, authorizes the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to issue a special on-sale general license to a nonprofit theater company, subject to specified requirements. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for any on- or off-sale licensee, or agent of that licensee, to sell, give, or deliver to any persons any alcoholic beverage between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. of the same day. The act defines \"public premises\" to mean, among other things, a premises in which food products are only sold or served incidentally to the sale or service of alcoholic beverages and exempts an above-described nonprofit theater company from the definition."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 631"
citation: "California AB 631 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic beverage control: licenses: nonprofit cultural film exhibition companies."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bloom"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 30
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-02-12"
last_action: "2022-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6dceabe-8a96-4084-80f9-39d42c128dad"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB631"
source_hash: "8739622bda86e77bb9aa44aacc35138f426c08c25eb3c2cbd09ba70b56fef1eb"
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 631 (20212022) — Alcoholic beverage control: licenses: nonprofit cultural film exhibition companies.

Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, authorizes the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to issue a special on-sale general license to a nonprofit theater company, subject to specified requirements. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for any on- or off-sale licensee, or agent of that licensee, to sell, give, or deliver to any persons any alcoholic beverage between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. of the same day. The act defines "public premises" to mean, among other things, a premises in which food products are only sold or served incidentally to the sale or service of alcoholic beverages and exempts an above-described nonprofit theater company from the definition.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/12/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB631&version=20210AB63199INT)
2. **03/24/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB631&version=20210AB63198AMD)
3. **05/12/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB631&version=20210AB63197AMD)
4. **06/29/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB631&version=20210AB63196AMD)
5. **08/16/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB631&version=20210AB63195AMD)
6. **09/29/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB631&version=20210AB63193CHP)
7. **AB631** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB631)
8. **08/26/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB631&version=20210AB63194ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB631 Bloom et al. By Portantino — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 631 Bloom Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 631 Bloom Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bloom — primary (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-13** From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
- **2021-02-25** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-27** From Consent Calendar.
- **2021-05-27** Ordered to third reading.
- **2021-06-02** Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Bloom.
- **2022-01-20** Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Bloom.
- **2022-01-24** From inactive file.
- **2022-01-24** Ordered to third reading.
- **2022-01-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3432.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-02-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-04** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-12** 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`
- **2022-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-28** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2022-06-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-16** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5003.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-23** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2022-08-24** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
- **2022-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 727, 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/a6dceabe-8a96-4084-80f9-39d42c128dad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).