republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-344.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic beverages: beer price posting and marketing regulations: definitions."
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 imposes requirements on a successor beer manufacturer, defined as a beer manufacturer that acquires the rights to manufacture, import, or distribute a product, who cancels any of the existing beer wholesaler's rights to distribute the product, as provided, and defines terms for this purpose."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 344"
citation: "California AB 344 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholicbeverages", "beerpricepostingandmarketingregulations", "definitions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Valencia"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-10-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3a6aafd-98ba-46c1-905d-a408df0e6074"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB344"
source_hash: "8e92e5996b0ef9f7097fec284d994b101c7925b609cda10c44c932270655b032"
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 344 (20252026) — Alcoholic beverages: beer price posting and marketing regulations: definitions.

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 imposes requirements on a successor beer manufacturer, defined as a beer manufacturer that acquires the rights to manufacture, import, or distribute a product, who cancels any of the existing beer wholesaler's rights to distribute the product, as provided, and defines terms for this purpose.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/29/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB344&version=20250AB34499INT)
2. **03/06/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB344&version=20250AB34498AMD)
3. **05/12/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB344&version=20250AB34497AMD)
4. **10/06/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB344&version=20250AB34495CHP)
5. **AB344** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB344)
6. **09/04/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB344&version=20250AB34496ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB344 Valencia By Ashby — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 344 Valencia Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **19–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Valencia — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-30** From printer. May be heard in committee March 1.
- **2025-02-10** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** 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`
- **2025-03-10** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-12** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1584.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-28** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-23** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-06-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2412.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-02** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2025-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2025-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 360, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b3a6aafd-98ba-46c1-905d-a408df0e6074`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).