AB 2697: Cannabis: drive-throughs.

California · Assembly · 2025–2026 Regular Session · last verified August 29, 2026

What AB 2697 does, verified August 29, 2026

<p>This bill allows local jurisdictions to permit licensed cannabis retailers or microbusinesses conducting storefront retail sales to sell cannabis products to customers in their vehicles via a drive-through. The sale must occur through a fixed-pane security window with an integrated security drawer located within the premises. Retailers that operate exclusively through delivery services or do not have public storefronts are excluded from this provision.</p>

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Last action: Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Ashby. (2026-08-27)Alert me

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Asm. Gail PellerinAuthor · California State Assembly

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Aug. 27, 2026	Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Ashby.
Jun. 23, 2026	Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Jun. 22, 2026	From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
Jun. 08, 2026	From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
May. 20, 2026	Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.

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Latest bill textAmended version, April 13, 2026 · 568 words

Amended IN Assembly April 13, 2026

Amended IN Assembly March 16, 2026

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2697

Introduced by Assembly Member Pellerin

February 20, 2026

An act to add Section 26204 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to cannabis.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2697, as amended, Pellerin. Cannabis: drive-throughs.

Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative measure, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA and any applicable local ordinances to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license, if conducted as prescribed. Existing law, the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act, among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities, and requires the Department of Cannabis Control to administer its provisions. Existing regulation prohibits the sale or delivery of cannabis or cannabis products through a pass-out window or a slide-out tray to the exterior of the licensed ~~premises.~~ premises, except as specified.

This bill would authorize a local jurisdiction to allow a licensed cannabis retailer ~~to conduct sales or deliveries at a drive-through, pass-out window, or slide-out tray,~~ or microbusiness that conducts storefront retail sales from a premises to sell cannabis or cannabis products to a customer in a motor vehicle in a drive-through, if the sales ~~and deliveries~~ are made through a fixed-pane security window with a security ~~drawer.~~ drawer that is part of a building located within the premises, except as specified. The bill would exclude a licensee that conducts retail sales exclusively through delivery or that does not maintain a premises open to the public for retail sales.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 26204 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:

26204.

(a) A local jurisdiction may authorize a licensed retailer to conduct sales or deliveries at a drive-through, pass-out window, or slide-out tray to the exterior of the licensed premises, if the sales and deliveries are made through a fixed-pane security window with a security drawer. retailer or microbusiness licensed under this division that conducts storefront retail sales from a premises to sell cannabis or cannabis products to a customer in a motor vehicle in a drive-through located on the premises.

~~(b)A retailer who conducts sales or deliveries through a drive-through, pass-out window, or slide-out tray to the exterior of the licensed premises shall do so in compliance with this division.~~
(b) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), drive-through sales authorized pursuant to subdivision (a) shall occur through a fixed-pane security window with a security drawer or similar secure transfer mechanism that is part of a building located within the premises.
(2) A retailer or microbusiness licensed under this division that conducted retail sales through a drive-through in compliance with state and local law before January 1, 2027, is not subject to the requirements of paragraph (1).
(c) This section shall not apply to a licensee that conducts retail sales exclusively through delivery or that does not maintain a premises open to the public for retail sales.
(d) Sales conducted pursuant to this section shall comply with this division and any regulations adopted by the department.
(e) This section does not limit the authority of a local jurisdiction under Section 26200 to regulate drive-through sales authorized pursuant to this section.

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