H.B. No. 2818
AN ACT
relating to certain local option elections and the permits and
licenses that can be issued in areas that approved the sale of
certain alcoholic beverages in a local option election.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 25, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended
by adding Section 25.14 to read as follows:
Sec. 25.14. ISSUANCE OF PERMIT AUTHORIZED FOR CERTAIN
AREAS. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a
permit under this chapter may be issued for a premises in an area in
which the voters have approved the following alcoholic beverage
ballot issues in a local option election:
(1) "The legal sale of beer and wine for off-premise
consumption only."; and
(2) either:
(A) "The legal sale of mixed beverages."; or
(B) "The legal sale of mixed beverages in
restaurants by food and beverage certificate holders only."
(b) A premises that qualifies for a permit under this
chapter because it is located in an area that approved the ballot
issue described by Subsection (a)(2)(B) may be issued a permit
under this chapter only if the premises is issued a food and
beverage certificate.
SECTION 2. Chapter 69, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended
by adding Section 69.17 to read as follows:
Sec. 69.17. ISSUANCE OF LICENSE AUTHORIZED FOR CERTAIN
AREAS. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a
license under this chapter may be issued for a premises in an area
in which the voters have approved the following alcoholic beverage
ballot issues in a local option election:
(1) "The legal sale of beer and wine for off-premise
consumption only."; and
(2) either:
(A) "The legal sale of mixed beverages."; or
(B) "The legal sale of mixed beverages in
restaurants by food and beverage certificate holders only."
(b) A premises that qualifies for a license under this
chapter because it is located in an area that approved the ballot
issue described by Subsection (a)(2)(B) may be issued a license
under this chapter only if the premises is issued a food and
beverage certificate.
SECTION 3. Chapter 70, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended
by adding Section 70.04 to read as follows:
Sec. 70.04. ISSUANCE OF LICENSE AUTHORIZED FOR CERTAIN
AREAS. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a
license under this chapter may be issued for a premises in an area
in which the voters have approved the following alcoholic beverage
ballot issues in a local option election:
(1) "The legal sale of beer and wine for off-premise
consumption only."; and
(2) either:
(A) "The legal sale of mixed beverages."; or
(B) "The legal sale of mixed beverages in
restaurants by food and beverage certificate holders only."
(b) A premises that qualifies for a license under this
chapter because it is located in an area that approved the ballot
issue described by Subsection (a)(2)(B) may be issued a license
under this chapter only if the premises is issued a food and
beverage certificate.
SECTION 4. Section 251.72, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 251.72. CHANGE OF STATUS. Except as provided in
Sections [Section] 251.73 and 251.80 [of this code], an authorized
voting unit that has exercised or may exercise the right of local
option retains the status adopted, whether absolute prohibition or
legalization of the sale of alcoholic beverages of one or more of
the various types and alcoholic contents on which an issue may be
submitted under the terms of Section 501.035, Election Code, until
that status is changed by a subsequent local option election in the
same authorized voting unit.
SECTION 5. Section 251.80, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to
read as follows:
(a) A local option election held in a justice precinct shall
be held in the territory comprising the justice precinct at the time
the election is held. If a justice precinct has established
[Whenever] a local option status as a result of a previous local
option election [is once legally put into effect as the result of
the vote] in the [a] justice precinct, such status shall remain in
effect until the status is changed as the result of a subsequent
local option election [vote] in the [same territory that comprised
the] precinct [when such status was established]. If the
boundaries of the justice precinct have changed since such status
was established, [the commissioners court shall, for purposes of] a
subsequent local option election will only change the local option
status in the territory that is part of the justice [, define the
boundaries of the original] precinct on the date of the subsequent
local option election[. A local option election may be held within
the territory defined by the commissioners court as constituting
such original precinct].
(a-1) For purposes of a local option election, a newly
created justice precinct shall be considered to have not held a
local option election on the sale of alcoholic beverages. Any local
option status established in the territory comprising the new
justice precinct that resulted from a local option election held in
the territory when the territory was part of another justice
precinct remains in effect until that status is changed by a local
option election held in the new justice precinct.
SECTION 6. Section 251.80(c), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 7. Sections 25.14, 69.17, and 70.04, Alcoholic
Beverage Code, as added by this Act, apply to a permit or license
issued on or after the effective date of this Act regardless of when
the local option election approving the sale of mixed beverages was
held.
SECTION 8. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2818 was passed by the House on May 8,
2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
H.B. No. 2818 on May 23, 2013, and requested the appointment of a
conference committee to consider the differences between the two
houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
on H.B. No. 2818 on May 26, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 141,
Nays 0, 3 present, not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2818 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 21, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
2818 on May 26, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor