Bill Text: TX HB824 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages to customers of a package store during certain hours.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective immediately [HB824 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB824-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 824 |
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relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages to customers of a | ||
package store during certain hours. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 22, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 22.17 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 22.17. SALE TO CUSTOMER IN STORE AT CLOSING. | ||
Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, if a customer has | ||
entered a package store during hours in which the package store may | ||
sell alcohol and is still in the store at the time the hours of legal | ||
sale end, the permittee may allow the customer to remain in the | ||
store for a reasonable amount of time to finish shopping, and the | ||
permittee may sell an alcoholic beverage to that customer even | ||
though the sale occurs after the designated end of the hours of | ||
legal sale. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2015. | ||
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President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 824 was passed by the House on April | ||
23, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
H.B. No. 824 on May 29, 2015, and requested the appointment of a | ||
conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
on H.B. No. 824 on May 31, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 144, | ||
Nays 0, 2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 824 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays | ||
3; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
824 on May 31, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |