Bill Text: TX HB2118 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages from certain automated dispensing machines.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-27 - Left pending in committee [HB2118 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2118-Introduced.html
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| By: Raymond | H.B. No. 2118 | |
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| relating to authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages from | ||
| certain automated dispensing machines. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 11, Alcoholic Beverage | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 11.14 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 11.14. AUTOMATED DISPENSING MACHINES. (a) In this | ||
| section: | ||
| (1) "Identification card" means a card issued by a | ||
| governmental agency that contains a person's name and a physical | ||
| description and photograph of the person, including a driver's | ||
| license or identification card issued by this state or another | ||
| state, a passport, or a military identification card. | ||
| (2) "Payment card" means a credit card, debit card, | ||
| check card, or other card that is issued to an authorized user to | ||
| purchase or obtain goods, services, money, or any other thing of | ||
| value. | ||
| (b) A permittee authorized to sell alcoholic beverages for | ||
| on-premises consumption may use an automated machine that, on | ||
| activation of a payment card by the permittee, may be operated to | ||
| dispense the alcoholic beverages. | ||
| (c) Only the following persons may dispense alcoholic | ||
| beverages from an automated machine authorized by this section: | ||
| (1) an employee of the permittee who is authorized to | ||
| serve alcoholic beverages; or | ||
| (2) subject to Subsection (d), a person whom the | ||
| permittee has verified to be 21 years of age or older using an | ||
| identification card that matches the name on the payment card. | ||
| (d) A verification that a person is 21 years of age or older | ||
| under Subsection (c)(2) must be recorded by the permittee in a | ||
| database and tied to the payment card before the person may dispense | ||
| alcoholic beverages from the automated machine. | ||
| (e) An automated machine authorized by this section may not | ||
| dispense a serving of more than 32 ounces of beer, 10 ounces of | ||
| wine, or 3 ounces of liquor without the payment card being | ||
| reactivated by the permittee. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 51.09, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.09. COIN-OPERATED MACHINES PROHIBITED. Except as | ||
| provided by Section 11.14, nothing [ |
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| be construed as authorizing nor may the commission or administrator | ||
| authorize the sale of any alcoholic beverage from a coin-operated | ||
| machine or similar device operated by the consumer that does not | ||
| require the verification and recordation of the consumer's age and | ||
| activation of a payment card prior to operation. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
