Bill Text: TX HB4449 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages in areas annexed by certain municipalities.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB4449 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB4449-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 4449 | ||
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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, 251.728, 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 251.728 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 251.728. CHANGE OF STATUS FOR TERRITORY ANNEXED OR | ||
| OWNED BY MUNICIPALITIES IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) This section | ||
| applies only to a municipality that: | ||
| (1) is wholly located in a county containing a portion | ||
| of U.S. Highways 60 and 87; and | ||
| (2) has a population of more than 12,000. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other law, an area annexed to a | ||
| municipality to which this section applies assumes the wet or dry | ||
| status of that municipality. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 4449 was passed by the House on May | ||
| 16, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 90, Nays 25, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 4449 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 27, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
