CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill
No. 277

Introduced by Senator Dodd

February 01, 2023

An act to amend Section 23393 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 277, as introduced, Dodd. Off-sale beer and wine licenses: low alcohol-by-volume spirits beverages.
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 authorizes the department to issue a retail package off-sale beer and wine license which authorizes the licensee to sell, to consumers only and not for resale, beer and wine in prescribed quantities, for consumption off the premises where sold.
This bill would authorize a retail package off-sale beer and wine licensee to also sell low alcohol-by-volume (ABV) spirits beverages, as defined, in containers no larger than 16 ounces.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 23393 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

23393.
 (a) A retail package off-sale beer and wine license authorizes the sale, to consumers only and not for resale, of beer in containers, and wine in packages and in quantities of 52 gallons or less per sale, and low alcohol-by-volume (ABV) spirits beverages in containers no larger than 16 ounces, for consumption off the premises where sold.
(b) For purposes of this section, “low alcohol-by-volume spirits beverage” or “low ABV spirits beverage” means an alcoholic beverage that does not exceed 10 percent alcohol by volume and includes distilled spirits mixed with other ingredients, including nonalcohol components or alcohol components, or both.