California Assembly Bill AB1798 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 1798INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Evans FEBRUARY 10, 2010 An act to amend Section 25237 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverage control. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1798, as introduced, Evans. Alcoholic beverages: wine labeling. Existing law makes it unlawful to make any representation that a wine is produced entirely from grapes grown in specified counties unless the representation is true. Existing law specifies that those provisions apply to representations made on labels, advertising matter, letterheads, invoices, tags, signs, business cards, and all other representations of any kind whether oral, written, or printed. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive changes in those provisions. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 25237 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read: 25237. It is unlawful to make any representation that a wine is produced entirely from grapes grown in the counties mentioned in Section 25236 unless the representation is true. This section  applies   shall apply  to representations made on labels, advertising matter, letterheads, invoices, tags, signs, business cards, and all other representations of any kind  whether   that are  oral, written, or printed.