Bill Text: TX HB170 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the hours for public consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-14 - Referred to Business & Commerce [HB170 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB170-Engrossed.html
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By: Ortega, Morrison | H.B. No. 170 |
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relating to the hours for public consumption of alcoholic | ||
beverages. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 105.06(a-1), (b), and (c), Alcoholic | ||
Beverage Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) For the purposes of this section, a licensed, | ||
unlicensed, [ |
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place. | ||
(b) In a standard hours area, a person commits an offense if | ||
the person [ |
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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) In an extended hours area, a person commits an offense | ||
if the person [ |
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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. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) Section 105.06, Alcoholic Beverage Code, as | ||
amended by this Act, applies only to an offense committed on or | ||
after the effective date of this Act. For the purposes of this | ||
section, an offense is committed before the effective date of this | ||
Act if any element of the offense occurs before that date. | ||
(b) An offense committed before the effective date of this | ||
Act is covered by the law in effect immediately before the effective | ||
date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |