Bill Text: TX HB3642 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Engrossed

Texas House Bill 3642 (Prior Session Legislation)

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

	87R13346 JAM-D

	By: Parker	H.B. No. 3642



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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.