republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2094.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverage control: public community college stadiums: City of Bakersfield."
description: "Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, generally prohibits the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages at a public schoolhouse or the grounds of the schoolhouse. Existing law makes various exceptions to this prohibition, including alcoholic beverages that are acquired, possessed, or used during events at a college-owned or college-operated stadium or veterans stadium with a capacity of over 12,000 people, located in a county with a population of over 6,000,000 people. Existing law defines \"events\" for purposes of that exception to mean football games sponsored by a college, other than a public community college, or other events sponsored by noncollege groups."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2094"
citation: "California AB 2094 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic beverage control", "City of Bakersfield", "public community college stadiums"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Flora"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-02-05"
last_action: "2024-09-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8a5d793-1dcf-4213-a74a-c5a22bc10471"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2094"
source_hash: "8becf1b7d807cf4e556188fd909522ba1567d47a90cdd56de804ac748012b337"
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 2094 (20232024) — Alcoholic beverage control: public community college stadiums: City of Bakersfield.

Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, generally prohibits the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages at a public schoolhouse or the grounds of the schoolhouse. Existing law makes various exceptions to this prohibition, including alcoholic beverages that are acquired, possessed, or used during events at a college-owned or college-operated stadium or veterans stadium with a capacity of over 12,000 people, located in a county with a population of over 6,000,000 people. Existing law defines "events" for purposes of that exception to mean football games sponsored by a college, other than a public community college, or other events sponsored by noncollege groups.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/05/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2094&version=20230AB209499INT)
2. **03/21/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2094&version=20230AB209498AMD)
3. **05/20/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2094&version=20230AB209497AMD)
4. **09/06/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2094&version=20230AB209495CHP)
5. **AB2094** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2094)
6. **08/23/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2094&version=20230AB209496ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2094 Flora Assembly Third Reading — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2094 Flora By Hurtado — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Higher Education] — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **14–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Flora — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-05** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-06** From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
- **2024-02-26** Referred to Coms. on G.O. and HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** 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`
- **2024-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-06** From Consent Calendar.
- **2024-05-06** Ordered to third reading.
- **2024-05-20** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 5291.) `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-21** Assembly Rule 69(d) suspended. (Page 5352.)
- **2024-05-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 5353.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-29** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-01** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-07-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 5267.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-21** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-08-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
- **2024-09-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 213, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c8a5d793-1dcf-4213-a74a-c5a22bc10471`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).