Alcoholic beverages: tied-house restrictions.

Existing law, known as tied-house restrictions, generally prohibits a manufacturer, winegrower, manufacturer's agent, rectifier, California winegrower's agent, distiller, bottler, importer, and wholesaler, and any officer, director, or agent of any of those persons, from giving or lending money or a thing of value to a person operating, owning, or maintaining any on-sale premises where alcoholic beverages are sold. The law provides certain exceptions to this prohibition if specified requirements are met. Tied-house restrictions permit specified licensees to conduct or participate in, and serve specified alcoholic beverages at, an instructional event or instructional tasting event for consumers held at a retailer's premises, if specified conditions are met. In this regard, these parties may list certain information in advertisements for the event, but those advertisements are prohibited from containing pictures or illustrations of the retailer premises. This bill would revise the advertising prohibitions to, among other things, allow for pictures, illustrations, and depictions of the retailer's premises and for the name, address, telephone number, email address, Internet Web site address, and any other electronic media of the licensee upon whose licensed premises the event will be held. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 25503.56 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 1891 and SB 1164 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1891 are enacted, this bill and SB 1164 are enacted, or all three bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last. This bill would also incorporate additional changes to Section 25503.57 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 1891 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1891 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.