SACRAMENTO — There will be no ban on Big Gulp-style sodas in California — at least not this year.

Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, pulled a bill to cap soda sizes from consideration for the year Tuesday, just hours before it was scheduled for its first committee vote.

AB766 would have banned restaurants and grocery stores from selling sugary drinks served in unsealed containers larger than 16 fluid ounces. It was part of a legislative package aimed at reducing soda consumption.

Chiu said in a statement that he would revisit the proposal next session.

“Make no mistake, the disease and suffering created by sugar-sweetened beverages is one of the most pressing public health issues of our time and must be addressed,” Chiu said. “Truly resolving this issue will be a multiyear conversation, and I look forward to the conversation.”

Facing stiff industry opposition, Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, also delayed a hearing on her bill to ban the display of sugary drinks near the checkout counters of supermarkets and other stores. Wicks said she would try to “find common ground” with her colleagues and bring the measure back for consideration in the coming weeks.

“Bold bills taking on Big Soda are never easy wins,” she said in a statement.

Two other measures — including a statewide soda tax — narrowly advanced Tuesday from the Assembly Health Committee. A third bill, to label soda cans and bottles with a warning about their health risk, advanced from the Senate Health Committee last month.

Chiu, Wicks and their colleagues introduced their proposals targeting sugary drinks in February, pointing to lingering anger among many Democrats over a deal the beverage industry forced on the Legislature last year that banned cities and counties from passing new soda taxes until 2031.

Public health groups have tried unsuccessfully for years to place statewide limits on sugary drinks that contribute to health problems such as obesity, Type 2 diabetes and tooth decay. Facing intransigence at the Capitol, activists had moved their fight to the local level in recent years, winning soda tax votes in Berkeley, San Francisco, Oakland and Albany.

Beverage manufacturers maneuvered last year to block such taxes, spending more than $8 million to qualify an initiative that would have made it more difficult to raise any state or local tax in California. They removed the measure from the ballot when lawmakers approved the moratorium on local soda taxes.

Since then, however, the soda industry has talked with one of California’s most powerful labor unions about a proposal to tax its products. Such a measure could be put before state voters in 2020.

The industry hammered out the moratorium on local taxes with the Service Employees International Union the weekend before lawmakers voted on it. At the time, the two sides committed to revisit the idea of a statewide tax later.

No tax plan has been formally negotiated. It’s possible a tax initiative could fund public health programs that employ union members and protect the local tax ban from a legislative repeal before it expires in 12 years.

The American Beverage Association, which represents soda companies, has come out against Chiu’s Big Gulp ban, Wicks’ bill and other measures targeting sugary drinks. On Tuesday, it released the results of a poll it had commissioned showing that Californians overwhelmingly oppose the bills.

“Enough is enough,” spokesman Steve Maviglio said in a statement.

Alexei Koseff is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: alexei.koseff@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @akoseff