CA AB2047

Expands exceptions to tied-house restrictions to allow beer manufacturers, winegrowers, distilled spirits rectifiers, manufacturers, and their agents to purchase advertising at on-sale retail licensees located at specified large venues in Sacramento, Alameda, Orange, Los Angeles, Kern, San Bernardino, Yolo, Fresno, Riverside, Tulare, San Joaquin counties, and the Cities of Pomona, La Verne, and Carson.

Adds new facilities in San Jose: a convention center with more than 130,000 square feet of exhibit space and an auditorium with a fixed seating capacity exceeding 2,500 seats, both owned by the City of San Jose.

Requires advertising purchases at San Jose facilities to be limited to interior advertising in connection with events conducted within those facilities and requires written contracts between manufacturers/agents and on-sale licensees.

Imposes criminal penalties of up to six months jail time and fines equal to the contract value plus $10,000 for manufacturers or licensees who use coercion or illegal means to induce wholesalers to fulfill advertising obligations, with license revocation also possible.

Declares no state reimbursement is required because the bill creates new criminal penalties under existing law.