81R8316 MCK-F
By: Truitt H.B. No. 2195
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to suspension or cancellation of certain alcoholic
beverage permits for nonpayment of accounts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 11, Alcoholic Beverage
Code, is amended by adding Section 11.614 to read as follows:
Sec. 11.614. SUSPENSION OR CANCELLATION FOR NONPAYMENT OF
ACCOUNT. (a) Subject to Subsection (b), the commission may, after
notice and hearing, cancel or suspend a wholesaler's, general class
B wholesaler's, or local class B wholesaler's permit on proof that
the permit holder, after reasonable opportunity to do so, failed to
make a timely and sufficient payment for a product purchased from
the holder of a nonresident seller's, nonresident brewer's,
brewer's, or distiller's and rectifier's permit.
(b) The commission may cancel or suspend a permit under this
section only after receipt of a complaint by the permit holder to
whom payment is owed.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to payment for a product purchased on or after the effective date of
this Act. Payment for a product purchased before the effective date
of this Act is governed by the law in effect immediately before that
date, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.