CA AB631

Authorizes the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to issue special on-sale general licenses to nonprofit cultural film exhibition companies that are tax-exempt, predominantly exhibit classic, foreign, independent, or rare movies, and operate theaters with at least 100 seats at least three days per week.

Permits licensed nonprofit cultural film exhibition companies to sell and serve alcoholic beverages to ticketholders only during, and two hours before and one hour after, bona fide film exhibitions, subject to existing alcohol sales restrictions including the 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. prohibition.

Exempts nonprofit cultural film exhibition companies licensed under this section from the definition of "public premises" under alcoholic beverage control law.

Establishes that nonprofit cultural film exhibition companies pay the same application and annual license fees as nonprofit theater companies.

Specifies that no state reimbursement is required to local agencies because costs stem from creating new crimes or changing crime definitions within the meaning of constitutional and statutory provisions.