Bill Text: TX HB893 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 893 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to consumption of alcoholic beverages in certain public entertainment facilities.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-18 - Effective immediately [HB893 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB893-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 893




	AN ACT
	relating to consumption of alcoholic beverages in certain public
	entertainment facilities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 108, Alcoholic Beverage
	Code, is amended by adding Section 108.82 to read as follows:
	Sec. 108.82. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONSUMPTION IN CERTAIN
	PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT FACILITIES. (a) This section applies only with
	respect to a public entertainment facility:
	(1) that is a stadium:
	(A) located in a county with a population of more
	than 1.6 million;
	(B) constructed not later than 1994; and
	(C) with a seating capacity of at least 45,000;
	and
	(2) for which all alcoholic beverage permits and
	licenses are held by a single independent concessionaire.
	(b) Notwithstanding Section 28.10, the independent
	concessionaire for a public entertainment facility described by
	Subsection (a) may allow a patron who possesses an alcoholic
	beverage to enter or leave a licensed or permitted premises within
	the facility if the alcoholic beverage:
	(1) is in an open container, as defined by Section
	49.031, Penal Code;
	(2) appears to be possessed for present consumption;
	(3) remains within the confines of the facility,
	excluding a parking lot; and
	(4) was purchased legally at a licensed or permitted
	premises within the facility.
	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, 2013.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 893 was passed by the House on April
	11, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 893 on May 6, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1
	present, not voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House

	I certify that H.B. No. 893 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 2, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date

	__________________
	Governor