Alcoholic beverages: certified farmers' market sales permit.

Header changed from bill tracking information (passage dates, signatures) to chaptered law format with 'STATE OF CALIFORNIA AUTHENTICATED ELECTRONIC LEGAL MATERIAL,' Chapter 147 designation, and gubernatorial approval date of August 27, 2026.

Page numbering and indentation reformatted throughout to match the official chaptered law layout (e.g., 'Ch. 147' page headers replacing 'SB 917' page headers).

Changed from allowing the certified farmers' market operator to determine how many licensees could conduct instructional tasting events, to a fixed cap of only three licensees allowed per market during operational hours.

Corrected several instances of 'farmer's market' to 'farmers' market' (apostrophe placement).

Added procedural elements: Senate passage date (April 27, 2026), Assembly passage date (August 13, 2026), and Governor's approval block. Removed line numbers from the statutory text.

Removed the requirement that a licensee designate at least one person with a valid alcohol server certification to be present and actively overseeing all alcoholic beverage service for the entire duration of an instructional tasting event. The general RBS training requirement in subsection (g) still applies but no longer mandates a specific designated overseer on site.

Added a hard cap stating that only three licensees may conduct an instructional tasting event during the operational hours of any one certified farmers' market. Previously, the number was left entirely to the authorization and managerial control of the market operator with no numerical limit in the statute.

The bill summary was changed from stating the bill 'would subject the number of licensees...to the authorization and managerial control of the operator' to stating it 'would increase the number of licensees allowed to conduct an instructional tasting event,' reflecting a shift from a flexible operator-controlled model to a fixed statutory cap of three.

The state-mandated local program designation was corrected from the ambiguous 'yes no' to a clear 'no,' and the related reimbursement paragraph referencing creation of a new crime was removed from the analysis section.

Removed the requirement that wine sold under a certified farmers' market sales permit must be produced from grapes or agricultural products 'grown by the winegrower.' The amended text only requires that the wine be bottled by the winegrower, broadening which winegrowers can sell at these markets.

Deleted the sentence 'Only one licensee may conduct an instructional tasting event during the operational hours of any one certified farmers' market.' The number of licensees conducting tastings is now left entirely to the authorization and managerial control of the market operator, with no statutory cap.

Added new subdivision (g) stating that instructional tastings under a certified farmers' market sales permit shall be subject to RBS (Responsible Beverage Service) training pursuant to Article 4 of Chapter 16. This explicitly extends the existing alcohol server certification framework to these events.