Bill Text: TX SB1375 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the sampling or tasting of distilled spirits by the manufacturer to a consumer at a temporary event.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1375 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1375-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the sampling or tasting of distilled spirits by the manufacturer to a consumer at a temporary event.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1375 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1375-Comm_Sub.html
By: Parker | S.B. No. 1375 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 1, 2023; March 16, 2023, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
April 12, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11, | ||
Nays 0; April 12, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the sampling or tasting of distilled spirits by the | ||
manufacturer to a consumer at a temporary event. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 14.01(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The holder of a distiller's and rectifier's permit may: | ||
(1) manufacture distilled spirits; | ||
(2) rectify, purify, and refine distilled spirits and | ||
wines; | ||
(3) mix wines, distilled spirits, or other liquors; | ||
(4) bottle, label, and package the permit holder's | ||
finished products; | ||
(5) sell the finished products in this state to | ||
holders of wholesaler's permits and to qualified persons outside | ||
the state; | ||
(6) purchase distilled spirits, to be used only for | ||
manufacturing or rectification purposes, from holders of | ||
nonresident seller's permits or distiller's and rectifier's | ||
permits; | ||
(7) dispense free distilled spirits for consumption on | ||
the permitted premises under Section 14.04 or at a temporary event | ||
under Section 14.09; | ||
(8) sell bulk alcohol produced by the permit holder | ||
for purposes described by Section 38.01; and | ||
(9) sell distilled spirits to ultimate consumers under | ||
Section 14.04 or 14.05. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 14, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 14.09 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 14.09. DISTILLED SPIRITS SAMPLING AT TEMPORARY EVENT. | ||
(a) The holder of a distiller's and rectifier's permit may conduct | ||
distilled spirits samplings or tastings at a civic or distilled | ||
spirits festival, farmers' market, celebration, or similar event. | ||
(b) The distilled spirits provided as a sample or at a | ||
tasting under Subsection (a) must be manufactured by the holder of | ||
the distiller's and rectifier's permit. | ||
(c) Sample portions served at a distilled spirits sampling | ||
or tasting under Subsection (a) may not exceed one-half ounce. | ||
(d) A person who receives a sample may not remove the sample | ||
from the event premises. | ||
(e) Distilled spirits may legally be transported by the | ||
holder of the distiller's and rectifier's permit or the permit | ||
holder's agent or employee to the temporary event for the purpose of | ||
providing a sample or a tasting under this section. | ||
(f) The cost of the distilled spirits provided for a | ||
sampling or tasting under this section is the responsibility of the | ||
holder of the distiller's and rectifier's permit providing the | ||
sampling or tasting. | ||
(g) The commission shall adopt rules to implement this | ||
section, including rules that: | ||
(1) establish a procedure to verify the wet or dry status of | ||
the location where the permit holder intends to temporarily sample | ||
or taste distilled spirits under this section; | ||
(2) detail the circumstances when a permit holder may | ||
temporarily sample distilled spirits under this section with just a | ||
notification to the commission and the circumstances that require | ||
the commission's preapproval before a permit holder may temporarily | ||
sample distilled spirits under this section; and | ||
(3) require the permit holder to provide any other | ||
information the commission determines necessary. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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