Bill Text: TX HB2966 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages from certain automated dispensing machines.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-22 - Referred to Licensing & Administrative Procedures [HB2966 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2966-Introduced.html
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By: Raymond | H.B. No. 2966 |
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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, 2017. |