California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB2751: Alcoholic beverages: imports: personal or household use: reasonable amounts.
Status: Chaptered, September 27, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend Section 23661 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages. alcoholic beverages Alcoholic beverages: imports: personal or household use: reasonable amounts. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act imposes restrictions on the means and manner by which alcoholic beverages are imported into the state for delivery or use within the state, as provided. Existing law provides an exception to these restrictions that allows an adult to bring a reasonable amount of alcoholic beverages into this state from without the United States for personal or household use…
From the chaptered text, September 27, 2026:
An act to amend Section 23661 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages. alcoholic beverages Alcoholic beverages: imports: personal or household use: reasonable amounts. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act imposes restrictions on the means and manner by which alcoholic beverages are imported into the state for delivery or use within the state, as provided. Existing law provides an exception to these restrictions that allows an adult to bring a reasonable amount of alcoholic beverages into this state from without the United States for personal or household use. Existing law limits that personal or household use exception by restricting a California resident returning to the United States by a vehicle that is not a common carrier, or any adult entering the United States as a pedestrian, to the amount of alcoholic beverages that is exempt from the payment of duty in accordance with existing provisions of federal law. This bill would instead limit the personal or household use exception by restricting any adult entering the United States as a pedestrian or by a vehicle that is not a common carrier to 6 liters of alcoholic beverages every 31 days. MAJORITY NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 23661 of the Business …