California Assembly Bill AB1035 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 1035INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Linder FEBRUARY 26, 2015 An act to amend Section 24045.2 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1035, as introduced, Linder. Alcoholic beverages: temporary licenses. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act authorizes the issuance of a special temporary retail package off-sale beer and wine license to a television station, supported wholly or in part by public membership subscription, which is a nonprofit, charitable corporation, as provided, or to a nonprofit, charitable corporation that receives and administers donations for a noncommercial, educational television station, or public broadcasting station supported wholly or in part by public membership subscription, as provided, subject to specified restrictions. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision. 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 24045.2 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read: 24045.2. (a) The department may issue a special temporary retail package off-sale beer and wine license to: (1) a television station, supported wholly or in part by public membership subscription, which is a nonprofit, charitable corporation exempt from payment of income taxes under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 of the United States, or (2) a nonprofit, charitable corporation exempt from payment of income taxes under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 of the United States that receives and administers donations for a noncommercial, educational television station  ,  or public broadcasting station supported wholly or in part by public membership subscription. An applicant for this license shall accompany the application with a fee of one hundred dollars ($100). (b)  This   A  license  issued pursuant to this section  shall only entitle the licensee to sell at auction beer and wine donated to it. Notwithstanding any other  provision of this division,   provision,  a licensee may donate beer, wine, or both beer and wine  ,  to a corporation licensed under this section, provided donations are not made in connection with a sale of an alcoholic beverage. (c) This license shall be for a period not exceeding 30 days. Only one license shall be issued to any corporation in a calendar year.