Bill Text: TX SB400 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to consumption of alcoholic beverages in certain public entertainment facilities.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-11 - Committee report printed and distributed [SB400 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB400-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Hancock | S.B. No. 400 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed February 5, 2013; February 13, 2013, | ||
| read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce; | ||
| April 11, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
| Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 11, 2013, | ||
| sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 400 | By: Hancock | |
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| 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 September 1, 2013. | ||
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