Bill Text: TX HB4397 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the sale of ale and beer by certain brewers and manufacturers to ultimate consumers for on-premises consumption.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-25 - Referred to Licensing & Administrative Procedures [HB4397 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB4397-Introduced.html

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86R10507 BEE-D
By: Biedermann H.B. No. 4397

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the sale of ale and beer by certain brewers and
manufacturers to ultimate consumers for on-premises consumption.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 12.052(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) In addition to the activities authorized by Section
12.01, the holder of a brewer's permit [whose annual production of
ale, together with the annual production of beer by the holder of a
manufacturer's license at all premises wholly or partly owned,
directly or indirectly, by the permit holder or an affiliate or
subsidiary of the permit holder, does not exceed a total of 225,000
barrels] may sell ale produced on the brewer's premises under the
permit to ultimate consumers on the brewer's premises for
responsible consumption on the brewer's premises.
SECTION 2. Section 62.122(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A manufacturer's licensee [whose annual production of
beer, together with the annual production of ale by the holder of a
brewer's permit at all premises wholly or partly owned, directly or
indirectly, by the license holder or an affiliate or subsidiary of
the license holder, does not exceed 225,000 barrels] may sell beer
produced on the manufacturer's premises under the license to
ultimate consumers on the manufacturer's premises for responsible
consumption on the manufacturer's premises.
SECTION 3. The following provisions of the Alcoholic
Beverage Code are repealed:
(1) Sections 12.052(c), (d), (e), and (f); and
(2) Sections 62.122(c), (d), (e), and (f).
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.