California Senate Bill SB825 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 825INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Committee on Governmental Organization (Senators Wright (Chair), Benoit, Calderon, Denham, Florez, Harman, Negrete McLeod, Oropeza, Padilla, Romero, Wiggins, Wyland, and Yee) MARCH 19, 2009 An act to amend Section 25176 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 825, as introduced, Committee on Governmental Organization. Prohibitions: refilling distilled spirits containers. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act contains various provisions regulating the labeling and containers of alcoholic beverages within the state, including a provision prohibiting, as a misdemeanor, the refilling or causing to be refilled with distilled spirits any distilled spirits package to which a tax stamp has been affixed evidencing the payment of United States internal revenue taxes. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision to conform with current United States internal revenue procedure. 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 25176 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read: 25176. Every person who refills or causes to be refilled with distilled spirits any distilled spirits  package to which has been affixed a stamp evidencing the payment of United States internal revenue taxes levied on the distilled spirits   container  is guilty of a misdemeanor.