Bill Text: TX HB558 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 558 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting certain limitations on the operation of certain organizations that benefit veterans during a declared state of disaster.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Vetoed) 2023-06-17 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB558 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB558-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 558




	AN ACT
	relating to prohibiting certain limitations on the operation of
	certain organizations that benefit veterans during a declared state
	of disaster.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 418.012, Government Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 418.012. EXECUTIVE ORDERS. (a) Under this chapter,
	the governor may issue executive orders, proclamations, and
	regulations and amend or rescind them. Executive orders,
	proclamations, and regulations have the force and effect of law.
	(b) An executive order, proclamation, or regulation issued
	by the governor under this chapter that restricts the operation of
	or the hours of operation for a business that sells alcoholic
	beverages may not include an organization exempt from federal
	taxation under Section 501(a), Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as an
	organization described by Section 501(c)(19) of that code, that
	benefits veterans of the United States armed forces.
	SECTION 2. Section 418.012, Government Code, as amended by
	this Act, applies only to a declaration of a state of disaster
	issued or renewed on or after the effective date of this Act. A
	declaration issued before the effective date of this Act is
	governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date
	of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2023.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 558 was passed by the House on May 2,
	2023, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 3 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 558 was passed by the Senate on May
	17, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor