republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-392.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tied-house restrictions: advertising exceptions: City of Inglewood."
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, known as tied-house restrictions, generally prohibits specified licensees, or their officers, directors, or agents, from giving or lending money or a thing of value to a person operating, owning, or maintaining any on-sale premises where alcoholic beverages are sold. In this regard, existing law specifically prohibits paying a retailer for advertising. Existing law creates a variety of exceptions to this prohibition, including permitting specified licensees to purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, an on-sale licensee that is an owner, manager, agent or assignee of the owner, or major tenant of certain venues, including a stadium with a fixed seating capacity of at least 70,000 seats located in the City of Inglewood and a performance venue with a seating capacity of at least 5,000 seats adjacent to the stadium. Existing law makes specified violations of these advertising provisions punishable as a misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 392"
citation: "California SB 392 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["City of Inglewood", "Tied-house restrictions", "advertising exceptions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradford"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-02-09"
last_action: "2023-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0e32293-02bd-4311-a57d-c7e02fe0fb48"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB392"
source_hash: "bbdcd447e749f235e73d3b07e13b1cc767fa96851c4983dd355241e54b6a936d"
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 SB 392 (20232024) — Tied-house restrictions: advertising exceptions: City of Inglewood.

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, known as tied-house restrictions, generally prohibits specified licensees, or their officers, directors, or agents, from giving or lending money or a thing of value to a person operating, owning, or maintaining any on-sale premises where alcoholic beverages are sold. In this regard, existing law specifically prohibits paying a retailer for advertising. Existing law creates a variety of exceptions to this prohibition, including permitting specified licensees to purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, an on-sale licensee that is an owner, manager, agent or assignee of the owner, or major tenant of certain venues, including a stadium with a fixed seating capacity of at least 70,000 seats located in the City of Inglewood and a performance venue with a seating capacity of at least 5,000 seats adjacent to the stadium. Existing law makes specified violations of these advertising provisions punishable as a misdemeanor.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/09/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB392&version=20230SB39299INT)
2. **04/26/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB392&version=20230SB39298AMD)
3. **09/07/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB392&version=20230SB39297AMD)
4. **10/08/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB392&version=20230SB39295CHP)
5. **SB392** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB392)
6. **09/15/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB392&version=20230SB39296ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading SB392 Bradford et al. — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB392 Bradford et al. Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 392 Bradford Senate Third Reading By Santiago — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bradford — primary (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-09** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-10** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
- **2023-02-22** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** Set for hearing March 14.
- **2023-03-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 340.) (March 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** Set for hearing April 10.
- **2023-04-10** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2023-04-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-26** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** Ordered to second reading.
- **2023-04-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1022.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-08** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-18** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-28** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 28). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-29** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-06-29** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Reyes.
- **2023-06-29** Ordered to third reading.
- **2023-09-07** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-07** Ordered to third reading.
- **2023-09-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3248.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-12** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2023-09-13** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2739.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2023-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 604, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c0e32293-02bd-4311-a57d-c7e02fe0fb48`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).