Bill Text: TX HB2569 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the dates a retail fireworks permit holder may sell fireworks to the public.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-14 - Referred to Local Government [HB2569 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2569-Comm_Sub.html
87R9067 ADM-D | ||
By: Cortez, Toth | H.B. No. 2569 |
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relating to the dates a retail fireworks permit holder may sell | ||
fireworks to the public. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2154.202(g), Occupations Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(g) Except as provided by Subsection (h), a retail fireworks | ||
permit holder may sell fireworks only to the public, and only during | ||
periods: | ||
(1) beginning June 24 and ending at midnight on July 5 | ||
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(2) beginning December 20 and ending at midnight on | ||
January 1 of the following year; and | ||
(3) beginning May 1 and ending at midnight on May 5 if | ||
the fireworks are sold at a location that is not more than 100 miles | ||
from the Texas-Mexico border and that is in a county in which the | ||
commissioners court of the county has approved the sale of | ||
fireworks during the period. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |