H.B. No. 2594
AN ACT
relating to the hours for the wholesale delivery or sale of
alcoholic beverages.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 105.02, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 105.02. HOURS OF SALE: WHOLESALERS AND LOCAL
DISTRIBUTORS TO RETAILERS. (a) A holder of a wholesaler's permit
[Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, a wholesaler
or a local distributor's permittee] may sell, offer for sale, or
deliver liquor to a retailer anytime [between 5 a. m. and 9 p. m. on
any day] except Sunday and Christmas Day.
(b) A local distributor's permittee may [not] sell, offer
for sale, or deliver [any] liquor to a retailer between 5 a.m. and 9
p.m. on any day except:
(1) Sunday;
(2) Christmas Day; or
(3) a day on which a package store permittee is
prohibited from selling liquor.
SECTION 2. Section 105.051, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 105.051. SALE OF BEER BY DISTRIBUTOR'S LICENSEE. The
[In addition to the hours specified for the sale of beer in Section
105.05(b) of this code, the] holder of a general, local, or branch
distributor's license may sell, offer for sale, or deliver beer 24
hours a day Monday through Saturday and between midnight and 1 a.m.
and between noon and midnight on [beginning at 5 a. m. on any day
except] Sunday.
SECTION 3. Section 105.052, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 4. 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, 2009.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2594 was passed by the House on April
9, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 1, 1 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 2594 on April 23, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays
0, 2 present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2594 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on April 21, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 30,
Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor