Bill Text: TX HB1518 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the hours for selling alcoholic beverages in certain establishments.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB1518 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1518-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the hours for selling alcoholic beverages in certain establishments.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB1518 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1518-Comm_Sub.html
By: Dutton (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) | H.B. No. 1518 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2021; | ||
May 10, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Business & | ||
Commerce; May 20, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 20, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the hours for selling alcoholic beverages in certain | ||
establishments. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 105.01(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Except as provided in Sections 105.02, 105.03, 105.04, | ||
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deliver any liquor: | ||
(1) on New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day, or Christmas | ||
Day; | ||
(2) on Sunday; or | ||
(3) before 10 a.m. or after 9 p.m. on any other day. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 105.06, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding Subsection | ||
(f) to read as follows: | ||
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (f), in [ |
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hours area, a person commits an offense if the person [ |
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or possesses with intent to consume an alcoholic beverage in a | ||
public place at any time on Sunday between 1:15 a.m. and 12 noon or | ||
on any other day between 12:15 a.m. and 7 a.m. | ||
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (f), in [ |
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extended hours area, a person commits an offense if the person [ |
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consumes or possesses with intent to consume an alcoholic beverage | ||
in a public place at any time on Sunday between 2:15 a.m. and 12 noon | ||
and on any other day between 2:15 a.m. and 7 a.m. | ||
(f) A person who is a registered guest of a hotel may consume | ||
or possess alcoholic beverages in the hotel bar, as defined by | ||
Section 105.091, at any time. | ||
SECTION 3. Chapter 105, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 105.091 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 105.091. HOURS OF SALE; HOTEL BAR. (a) In this | ||
section, "hotel bar" means an establishment that is located in a | ||
hotel and holds a permit or license providing for the on-premises | ||
consumption of alcoholic beverages. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, a hotel bar may sell or | ||
offer for sale alcoholic beverages at any time to a registered guest | ||
of the hotel. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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