Alcoholic beverage licensees: donations.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provides that nothing in that law prohibits specified licensees from giving or selling beer, wine, or distilled spirits, as applicable, to certain nonprofit organizations, as specified, at prices other than those contained in schedules filed with the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Existing law, pursuant to this prohibition exemption, allows a beer and wine wholesaler that also holds an importer's license to give or sell beer, wine, or distilled spirits to specified nonprofits. This bill would expand the prohibition exemption to allow specified distilled spirits wholesalers to give or sell beer, wine, or distilled spirits to certain nonprofit organizations and would revise the prohibition exemption for a beer and wine wholesaler that also holds an importer's license to allow that licensee to give or sell beer or wine to specified nonprofits. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.