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 03/28/25 - Amended Assembly
 01/28/25 - Introduced

 AB-342 Alcoholic beverages: hours of sale: hospitality zones.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/01/2025 09:00 PM

AB342:v95#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 July 01, 2025

 Amended
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 Assembly
 May 23, 2025

 Amended
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 Assembly
 April 29, 2025

 Amended
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 Assembly
 March 28, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 342

Introduced by Assembly Member Haney
(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Mark González)
(Principal coauthor: Senator Wiener)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Elhawary, Solache, and Wallis)

January 28, 2025

An act to amend Section 25631 of, and to add and repeal Section 25634 of, the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 342, as amended, Haney.
 Alcoholic beverages: hours of sale: hospitality zones.

Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application for, and the issuance and suspension of, alcoholic beverage licenses. Existing law requires moneys collected as fees pursuant to the act to be deposited in the Alcohol Beverage Control Fund, with those moneys generally allocated to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control upon appropriation by the Legislature. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for any on- or off-sale licensee, or agent or employee of the licensee, to sell, give, or deliver to any person any alcoholic beverage between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. of the same day, and for any person who knowingly purchases any alcoholic beverages between those hours.

This bill, beginning June 1, 2026, would allow an on-sale licensee, or their
 agent or employee, to sell or give alcoholic beverages until 4 a.m. on Fridays, Saturdays, or specified state holidays within a hospitality zone, defined to include a Hospitality Zone and a Special Event Hospitality Zone established pursuant to the bill’s provisions, as specified. The bill, beginning June 1, 2026, bill would authorize the department to issue issue, following the adoption of rules and regulations and the satisfaction of any conditions for issuance, as specified, an additional serving hours license that authorizes an on-sale licensee, or their agent or employee, to sell or give alcoholic beverages within the
 timeframes described above in a hospitality zone, as specified. The bill would authorize an additional service hours license to be used by a licensed premises in a Hospitality Zone if a local governing body, as defined, of the city or county, as applicable, in which the licensed premises is located adopts an ordinance that meets certain requirements, as specified, and submits the ordinance to the department. The bill would also require, before the adoption of that ordinance, local law enforcement to present to the local governing body a late night policing plan that includes specified components, including, among other things, an analysis on the potential impact of creating a hospitality zone on public safety.

The bill would authorize an additional service hours license to also be used by a licensed premises in a Special Event Hospitality Zone if a local
 governing body of the city or county, as applicable, in which the licensed premises is located adopts an ordinance that meets certain requirements and submits the ordinance to the department. The bill would require the ordinance to identify a Special Event Hospitality Zone in which an on-sale licensed premises would be eligible for an additional serving hours license, as specified, or to authorize at least one local department or other local entity to identify Special Event Hospitality Zones in which an on-sale licensed premises would be eligible for an additional serving hours license. The bill would require the local governing body, or the local department or other local entity authorized by the local governing body, to identify a Special Event Hospitality Zone in which an on-sale licensed premises would be eligible for an additional serving hours license subject to certain requirements, including that the local governing body, or the local de