| 1 | 1 | | By: Kuempel (Senate Sponsor - Eltife) H.B. No. 1952 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 2011; |
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| 3 | 3 | | April 20, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 4 | 4 | | Business and Commerce; May 3, 2011, reported favorably by the |
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| 5 | 5 | | following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 3, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | 6 | | |
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| 7 | 7 | | |
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| 8 | 8 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 9 | 9 | | AN ACT |
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| 10 | 10 | | relating to alcoholic beverage seller-servers and to seller |
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| 11 | 11 | | training programs. |
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| 12 | 12 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 13 | 13 | | SECTION 1. Section 106.14, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is |
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| 14 | 14 | | amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: |
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| 15 | 15 | | (e) After notice and hearing, the commission may cancel or |
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| 16 | 16 | | suspend the commission's approval of a seller training program, the |
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| 17 | 17 | | commission's certification of a trainer to teach a seller training |
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| 18 | 18 | | program, or the commission's certification of a seller-server if |
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| 19 | 19 | | the program, trainer, or seller-server violates this code or a |
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| 20 | 20 | | commission rule. The commission may give a program, trainer, or |
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| 21 | 21 | | seller-server the opportunity to pay a civil penalty rather than be |
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| 22 | 22 | | subject to suspension under this subsection. Sections 11.62 |
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| 23 | 23 | | through 11.67 apply to the program approval or certification as if |
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| 24 | 24 | | the program approval or certification were a license or permit |
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| 25 | 25 | | under this code. |
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| 26 | 26 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 27 | 27 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 28 | 28 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 29 | 29 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 30 | 30 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |
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| 31 | 31 | | * * * * * |
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