By: Kuempel (Senate Sponsor - Eltife) H.B. No. 1952
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 2011;
April 20, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
Business and Commerce; May 3, 2011, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 3, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to alcoholic beverage seller-servers and to seller
training programs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 106.14, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
(e) After notice and hearing, the commission may cancel or
suspend the commission's approval of a seller training program, the
commission's certification of a trainer to teach a seller training
program, or the commission's certification of a seller-server if
the program, trainer, or seller-server violates this code or a
commission rule. The commission may give a program, trainer, or
seller-server the opportunity to pay a civil penalty rather than be
subject to suspension under this subsection. Sections 11.62
through 11.67 apply to the program approval or certification as if
the program approval or certification were a license or permit
under this code.
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, 2011.
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