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 for incidental amounts of alcoholic beverages brought into this state by an adult for personal use from a hotel that is jointly located within the jurisdictions of this state and Nevada.

This bill would revise the above-described exception to allow the importation of incidental amounts of alcoholic beverages brought into this state by an adult for personal use from a location that is jointly located within the jurisdictions of this state and Nevada.

Existing law also provides an exception to the importation restrictions that allows an adult to bring a reasonable amount of alcoholic beverages into this state from without the United States for personal household use. Existing law restricts 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 specify that a reasonable amount of alcoholic beverages for purposes of the above-described exception is an amount that does not exceed 6 liters, and would remove the above-described restriction limiting the amount of alcoholic beverages to the amount exempt from the payment of duty.