Bill Text: TX HB2953 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the definition of a public entertainment facility and the promotion, sponsorship, or advertising of an entertainment event or venue or alcoholic beverage at certain governmentally owned public entertainment facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-18 - Left pending in committee [HB2953 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2953-Engrossed.html
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By: Geren | H.B. No. 2953 |
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relating to the definition of a public entertainment facility and | ||
the promotion, sponsorship, or advertising of an entertainment | ||
event or venue or alcoholic beverage at certain governmentally | ||
owned public entertainment facilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 108.73(2), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(2) "Public entertainment facility" means an arena, | ||
stadium, automobile race track, amphitheater, auditorium, theater, | ||
civic center, convention center, or similar facility that is | ||
primarily designed and used for live artistic, theatrical, | ||
cultural, educational, charitable, musical, sporting, nationally | ||
sanctioned automobile racing, or entertainment events. The term | ||
includes a facility that is part of an approved venue project, | ||
including the venue and related infrastructure, as those terms are | ||
defined by Section 334.001, Local Government Code. The term does | ||
not include a facility the primary purpose of which is the sale of | ||
food or alcoholic beverages, including a bar, nightclub, | ||
restaurant, hotel, bowling alley, pool hall, or dance hall, or a | ||
facility that derives 75 percent or more of the facility's annual | ||
gross revenue from the on-premise sale of alcoholic beverages, | ||
except for a facility that is part of an approved venue project, | ||
including the venue and related infrastructure, as those terms are | ||
defined by Section 334.001, Local Government Code. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 108.755(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Section 108.75 does not restrict or govern the | ||
promotion, sponsorship, or advertising of an entertainment event, | ||
or the promotion or advertising of an alcoholic beverage brand or | ||
product, at a facility that is: | ||
(1) owned by a municipality or county that is financed | ||
with public securities, the interest on which is exempt from | ||
federal income taxation under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; or | ||
(2) part of an approved venue project, including the | ||
venue and related infrastructure, as those terms are defined by | ||
Section 334.001, Local Government Code. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2017. |