Bill Text: TX HB3642 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages in areas annexed by certain municipalities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-10 - Referred to Business & Commerce [HB3642 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3642-Engrossed.html
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By: Parker | H.B. No. 3642 |
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relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages in areas annexed by | ||
certain municipalities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 251.72, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 251.72. CHANGE OF STATUS. Except as provided in | ||
Sections 251.725, 251.726, 251.727, 251.73, and 251.80, an | ||
authorized voting unit that has exercised or may exercise the right | ||
of local option retains the status adopted, whether absolute | ||
prohibition or legalization of the sale of alcoholic beverages of | ||
one or more of the various types and alcoholic contents on which an | ||
issue may be submitted under the terms of Section 501.035, Election | ||
Code, until that status is changed by a subsequent local option | ||
election in the same authorized voting unit. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 251, Alcoholic Beverage | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 251.727 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 251.727. CHANGE OF STATUS FOR TERRITORY ANNEXED BY | ||
MUNICIPALITIES IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) This section applies only | ||
to a municipality that: | ||
(1) has a municipal boundary located not more than 1.5 | ||
miles from an automobile racetrack with a seating capacity of more | ||
than 100,000; | ||
(2) has a population of more than 1,000 and less than | ||
3,000; and | ||
(3) is located entirely within a county with a | ||
population of more than 650,000 that is adjacent to two counties, | ||
each of which has a population of more than 1.8 million. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, an area annexed to a | ||
municipality to which this section applies automatically assumes | ||
the wet or dry status of that municipality on annexation. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies to an | ||
area annexed by a municipality before, on, or after the effective | ||
date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |