Amended IN Senate April 03, 2019 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 656Introduced by Senator HuesoFebruary 22, 2019An act to amend Section 23106 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages. An act relating to the San Diego-Coronado Bridge, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 656, as amended, Hueso. Alcoholic beverages: storage. San Diego-Coronado Bridge: physical barriers.Existing law provides funding for the development, construction, and maintenance of the states bridges and highways and requires that a project study report be prepared for any new project involving the construction of a new bridge, or the replacement of a bridge with a history of documented suicides, that demonstrates that a suicide barrier was a feature that was considered during the projects planning process.This bill would require the Department of Transportation to act expeditiously toward approving and constructing a permanent physical barrier on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge and would require the department to give this priority over other pending projects not related to the immediate health and safety of the public. The bill would require the department one year after constructing the permanent physical barrier to make available, on its internet website, information regarding the impact of the barrier on suicides on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.Existing law permits specified alcoholic beverages to be stored in private warehouses, without the requirement of obtaining a special approval or an additional license, if the applicable taxes imposed on those products have been paid to the state. Existing law imposes a $50 fee for the approval of a private warehouse for the storage of all other alcoholic beverages. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) The San Diego-Coronado Bridge was constructed between February 1967 and August 1969, as an alternative to the San Diego-Coronado ferry system.(b) It is recognized as a San Diego landmark and has won several awards for both its beauty and its unique construction. The bridge is listed on the California Register of Historical Resources and is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.(c) Over 80,000 passenger vehicles cross the San Diego-Coronado Bridge daily as the bridge serves a critical connection for the community of Coronado and Naval Base Coronado to San Diego.(d) Roughly 400 suicides have occurred since 1969 at the San Diego-Coronado Bridge.(e) After the Golden Gate Bridge, it is recognized as the second most frequently used bridge for suicide in the United States.(f) From 2011 to 2016, the bridge averaged 15 suicides per year. That number is double the average in the period from 2005 to 2010.(g) The average annual number of suicides at the San Diego-Coronado Bridge has more than doubled over the past six years.(h) The 2012 death toll of 19 lives was the highest in the bridges nearly 50-year history.(i) The nationwide average age of those who kill themselves at a bridge is 50 years of age; at the San Diego-Coronado Bridge that age is 38 years of age.(j) The San Diego-Coronado Bridge has the highest concentration of fatalities for a spot located on the state highway system in Caltrans District 11 in the Counties of San Diego and Imperial due to deaths by suicide, resulting in closures of the bridge.SEC. 2. The Department of Transportation shall act expeditiously toward approving and constructing a permanent physical barrier on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge and shall give this priority over other pending projects not related to the immediate health and safety of the public.SEC. 3. One year after constructing the permanent physical barrier, the Department of Transportation shall make available, on its internet website, information regarding the impact of the permanent physical barrier on suicides on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge.SEC. 4. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:In order to ensure a barrier is constructed to improve safety and mitigate suicide risks on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge at the earliest possible time, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.SECTION 1.Section 23106 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:23106.(a)Wine stored in a winery or wine cellar bonded under the internal revenue laws of the United States and brandy in bulk stored in an internal revenue bonded warehouse may be stored by or for any licensee without the necessity of any license by the person furnishing or providing the storage space.(b)Beer and wine upon which excise taxes have been paid to the state at the rate fixed under Part 14 of Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code may be stored by or for any licensee in any private or public warehouse or elsewhere in this state without the necessity of any license by the person furnishing or providing the storage space or any special additional license by the licensee.(c)Any other alcoholic beverage may, without the necessity of an additional license, be stored by or for a licensee in private warehouses approved by the department, if within the limits of the county in which the licensees licensed premises are located, or in a public warehouse within that county, or may be stored in bond in a public warehouse outside that county if the public warehouse is also a United States customs bonded warehouse, a United States internal revenue bonded warehouse, or a United States bonded wine cellar. An application for the approval of a private warehouse shall be accompanied by a fee of fifty dollars ($50). Amended IN Senate April 03, 2019 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 656Introduced by Senator HuesoFebruary 22, 2019An act to amend Section 23106 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages. An act relating to the San Diego-Coronado Bridge, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 656, as amended, Hueso. Alcoholic beverages: storage. San Diego-Coronado Bridge: physical barriers.Existing law provides funding for the development, construction, and maintenance of the states bridges and highways and requires that a project study report be prepared for any new project involving the construction of a new bridge, or the replacement of a bridge with a history of documented suicides, that demonstrates that a suicide barrier was a feature that was considered during the projects planning process.This bill would require the Department of Transportation to act expeditiously toward approving and constructing a permanent physical barrier on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge and would require the department to give this priority over other pending projects not related to the immediate health and safety of the public. The bill would require the department one year after constructing the permanent physical barrier to make available, on its internet website, information regarding the impact of the barrier on suicides on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.Existing law permits specified alcoholic beverages to be stored in private warehouses, without the requirement of obtaining a special approval or an additional license, if the applicable taxes imposed on those products have been paid to the state. Existing law imposes a $50 fee for the approval of a private warehouse for the storage of all other alcoholic beverages. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NO Amended IN Senate April 03, 2019 Amended IN Senate April 03, 2019 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 656 Introduced by Senator HuesoFebruary 22, 2019 Introduced by Senator Hueso February 22, 2019 An act to amend Section 23106 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages. An act relating to the San Diego-Coronado Bridge, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST ## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 656, as amended, Hueso. Alcoholic beverages: storage. San Diego-Coronado Bridge: physical barriers. Existing law provides funding for the development, construction, and maintenance of the states bridges and highways and requires that a project study report be prepared for any new project involving the construction of a new bridge, or the replacement of a bridge with a history of documented suicides, that demonstrates that a suicide barrier was a feature that was considered during the projects planning process.This bill would require the Department of Transportation to act expeditiously toward approving and constructing a permanent physical barrier on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge and would require the department to give this priority over other pending projects not related to the immediate health and safety of the public. The bill would require the department one year after constructing the permanent physical barrier to make available, on its internet website, information regarding the impact of the barrier on suicides on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.Existing law permits specified alcoholic beverages to be stored in private warehouses, without the requirement of obtaining a special approval or an additional license, if the applicable taxes imposed on those products have been paid to the state. Existing law imposes a $50 fee for the approval of a private warehouse for the storage of all other alcoholic beverages. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision. Existing law provides funding for the development, construction, and maintenance of the states bridges and highways and requires that a project study report be prepared for any new project involving the construction of a new bridge, or the replacement of a bridge with a history of documented suicides, that demonstrates that a suicide barrier was a feature that was considered during the projects planning process. This bill would require the Department of Transportation to act expeditiously toward approving and constructing a permanent physical barrier on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge and would require the department to give this priority over other pending projects not related to the immediate health and safety of the public. The bill would require the department one year after constructing the permanent physical barrier to make available, on its internet website, information regarding the impact of the barrier on suicides on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. Existing law permits specified alcoholic beverages to be stored in private warehouses, without the requirement of obtaining a special approval or an additional license, if the applicable taxes imposed on those products have been paid to the state. Existing law imposes a $50 fee for the approval of a private warehouse for the storage of all other alcoholic beverages. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision. ## Digest Key ## Bill Text The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) The San Diego-Coronado Bridge was constructed between February 1967 and August 1969, as an alternative to the San Diego-Coronado ferry system.(b) It is recognized as a San Diego landmark and has won several awards for both its beauty and its unique construction. The bridge is listed on the California Register of Historical Resources and is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.(c) Over 80,000 passenger vehicles cross the San Diego-Coronado Bridge daily as the bridge serves a critical connection for the community of Coronado and Naval Base Coronado to San Diego.(d) Roughly 400 suicides have occurred since 1969 at the San Diego-Coronado Bridge.(e) After the Golden Gate Bridge, it is recognized as the second most frequently used bridge for suicide in the United States.(f) From 2011 to 2016, the bridge averaged 15 suicides per year. That number is double the average in the period from 2005 to 2010.(g) The average annual number of suicides at the San Diego-Coronado Bridge has more than doubled over the past six years.(h) The 2012 death toll of 19 lives was the highest in the bridges nearly 50-year history.(i) The nationwide average age of those who kill themselves at a bridge is 50 years of age; at the San Diego-Coronado Bridge that age is 38 years of age.(j) The San Diego-Coronado Bridge has the highest concentration of fatalities for a spot located on the state highway system in Caltrans District 11 in the Counties of San Diego and Imperial due to deaths by suicide, resulting in closures of the bridge.SEC. 2. The Department of Transportation shall act expeditiously toward approving and constructing a permanent physical barrier on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge and shall give this priority over other pending projects not related to the immediate health and safety of the public.SEC. 3. One year after constructing the permanent physical barrier, the Department of Transportation shall make available, on its internet website, information regarding the impact of the permanent physical barrier on suicides on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge.SEC. 4. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:In order to ensure a barrier is constructed to improve safety and mitigate suicide risks on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge at the earliest possible time, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.SECTION 1.Section 23106 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:23106.(a)Wine stored in a winery or wine cellar bonded under the internal revenue laws of the United States and brandy in bulk stored in an internal revenue bonded warehouse may be stored by or for any licensee without the necessity of any license by the person furnishing or providing the storage space.(b)Beer and wine upon which excise taxes have been paid to the state at the rate fixed under Part 14 of Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code may be stored by or for any licensee in any private or public warehouse or elsewhere in this state without the necessity of any license by the person furnishing or providing the storage space or any special additional license by the licensee.(c)Any other alcoholic beverage may, without the necessity of an additional license, be stored by or for a licensee in private warehouses approved by the department, if within the limits of the county in which the licensees licensed premises are located, or in a public warehouse within that county, or may be stored in bond in a public warehouse outside that county if the public warehouse is also a United States customs bonded warehouse, a United States internal revenue bonded warehouse, or a United States bonded wine cellar. An application for the approval of a private warehouse shall be accompanied by a fee of fifty dollars ($50). The people of the State of California do enact as follows: ## The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) The San Diego-Coronado Bridge was constructed between February 1967 and August 1969, as an alternative to the San Diego-Coronado ferry system.(b) It is recognized as a San Diego landmark and has won several awards for both its beauty and its unique construction. The bridge is listed on the California Register of Historical Resources and is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.(c) Over 80,000 passenger vehicles cross the San Diego-Coronado Bridge daily as the bridge serves a critical connection for the community of Coronado and Naval Base Coronado to San Diego.(d) Roughly 400 suicides have occurred since 1969 at the San Diego-Coronado Bridge.(e) After the Golden Gate Bridge, it is recognized as the second most frequently used bridge for suicide in the United States.(f) From 2011 to 2016, the bridge averaged 15 suicides per year. That number is double the average in the period from 2005 to 2010.(g) The average annual number of suicides at the San Diego-Coronado Bridge has more than doubled over the past six years.(h) The 2012 death toll of 19 lives was the highest in the bridges nearly 50-year history.(i) The nationwide average age of those who kill themselves at a bridge is 50 years of age; at the San Diego-Coronado Bridge that age is 38 years of age.(j) The San Diego-Coronado Bridge has the highest concentration of fatalities for a spot located on the state highway system in Caltrans District 11 in the Counties of San Diego and Imperial due to deaths by suicide, resulting in closures of the bridge. SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) The San Diego-Coronado Bridge was constructed between February 1967 and August 1969, as an alternative to the San Diego-Coronado ferry system.(b) It is recognized as a San Diego landmark and has won several awards for both its beauty and its unique construction. The bridge is listed on the California Register of Historical Resources and is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.(c) Over 80,000 passenger vehicles cross the San Diego-Coronado Bridge daily as the bridge serves a critical connection for the community of Coronado and Naval Base Coronado to San Diego.(d) Roughly 400 suicides have occurred since 1969 at the San Diego-Coronado Bridge.(e) After the Golden Gate Bridge, it is recognized as the second most frequently used bridge for suicide in the United States.(f) From 2011 to 2016, the bridge averaged 15 suicides per year. That number is double the average in the period from 2005 to 2010.(g) The average annual number of suicides at the San Diego-Coronado Bridge has more than doubled over the past six years.(h) The 2012 death toll of 19 lives was the highest in the bridges nearly 50-year history.(i) The nationwide average age of those who kill themselves at a bridge is 50 years of age; at the San Diego-Coronado Bridge that age is 38 years of age.(j) The San Diego-Coronado Bridge has the highest concentration of fatalities for a spot located on the state highway system in Caltrans District 11 in the Counties of San Diego and Imperial due to deaths by suicide, resulting in closures of the bridge. SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: ### SECTION 1. (a) The San Diego-Coronado Bridge was constructed between February 1967 and August 1969, as an alternative to the San Diego-Coronado ferry system. (b) It is recognized as a San Diego landmark and has won several awards for both its beauty and its unique construction. The bridge is listed on the California Register of Historical Resources and is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. (c) Over 80,000 passenger vehicles cross the San Diego-Coronado Bridge daily as the bridge serves a critical connection for the community of Coronado and Naval Base Coronado to San Diego. (d) Roughly 400 suicides have occurred since 1969 at the San Diego-Coronado Bridge. (e) After the Golden Gate Bridge, it is recognized as the second most frequently used bridge for suicide in the United States. (f) From 2011 to 2016, the bridge averaged 15 suicides per year. That number is double the average in the period from 2005 to 2010. (g) The average annual number of suicides at the San Diego-Coronado Bridge has more than doubled over the past six years. (h) The 2012 death toll of 19 lives was the highest in the bridges nearly 50-year history. (i) The nationwide average age of those who kill themselves at a bridge is 50 years of age; at the San Diego-Coronado Bridge that age is 38 years of age. (j) The San Diego-Coronado Bridge has the highest concentration of fatalities for a spot located on the state highway system in Caltrans District 11 in the Counties of San Diego and Imperial due to deaths by suicide, resulting in closures of the bridge. SEC. 2. The Department of Transportation shall act expeditiously toward approving and constructing a permanent physical barrier on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge and shall give this priority over other pending projects not related to the immediate health and safety of the public. SEC. 2. The Department of Transportation shall act expeditiously toward approving and constructing a permanent physical barrier on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge and shall give this priority over other pending projects not related to the immediate health and safety of the public. SEC. 2. The Department of Transportation shall act expeditiously toward approving and constructing a permanent physical barrier on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge and shall give this priority over other pending projects not related to the immediate health and safety of the public. ### SEC. 2. SEC. 3. One year after constructing the permanent physical barrier, the Department of Transportation shall make available, on its internet website, information regarding the impact of the permanent physical barrier on suicides on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge. SEC. 3. One year after constructing the permanent physical barrier, the Department of Transportation shall make available, on its internet website, information regarding the impact of the permanent physical barrier on suicides on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge. SEC. 3. One year after constructing the permanent physical barrier, the Department of Transportation shall make available, on its internet website, information regarding the impact of the permanent physical barrier on suicides on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge. ### SEC. 3. SEC. 4. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:In order to ensure a barrier is constructed to improve safety and mitigate suicide risks on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge at the earliest possible time, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately. SEC. 4. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:In order to ensure a barrier is constructed to improve safety and mitigate suicide risks on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge at the earliest possible time, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately. SEC. 4. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are: ### SEC. 4. In order to ensure a barrier is constructed to improve safety and mitigate suicide risks on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge at the earliest possible time, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately. (a)Wine stored in a winery or wine cellar bonded under the internal revenue laws of the United States and brandy in bulk stored in an internal revenue bonded warehouse may be stored by or for any licensee without the necessity of any license by the person furnishing or providing the storage space. (b)Beer and wine upon which excise taxes have been paid to the state at the rate fixed under Part 14 of Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code may be stored by or for any licensee in any private or public warehouse or elsewhere in this state without the necessity of any license by the person furnishing or providing the storage space or any special additional license by the licensee. (c)Any other alcoholic beverage may, without the necessity of an additional license, be stored by or for a licensee in private warehouses approved by the department, if within the limits of the county in which the licensees licensed premises are located, or in a public warehouse within that county, or may be stored in bond in a public warehouse outside that county if the public warehouse is also a United States customs bonded warehouse, a United States internal revenue bonded warehouse, or a United States bonded wine cellar. An application for the approval of a private warehouse shall be accompanied by a fee of fifty dollars ($50).