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1		-	By: Capriglione, Springer H.B. No. 2735
2		-	(Senate Sponsor - Hancock)
3		-	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 20, 2015;
4		-	May 4, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Business
5		-	and Commerce; May 15, 2015, reported favorably by the following
6		-	vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 15, 2015, sent to printer.)
7		-	Click here to see the committee vote
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10		-	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
11	4		AN ACT
12	5		relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages in certain areas
13	6		annexed by a municipality.
14	7		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
15	8		SECTION 1. Section 251.72, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
16	9		amended to read as follows:
17	10		Sec. 251.72. CHANGE OF STATUS. Except as provided in
18	11		Sections 251.725, 251.73, and 251.80, an authorized voting unit
19	12		that has exercised or may exercise the right of local option retains
20	13		the status adopted, whether absolute prohibition or legalization of
21	14		the sale of alcoholic beverages of one or more of the various types
22	15		and alcoholic contents on which an issue may be submitted under the
23	16		terms of Section 501.035, Election Code, until that status is
24	17		changed by a subsequent local option election in the same
25	18		authorized voting unit.
26	19		SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 251, Alcoholic Beverage
27	20		Code, is amended by adding Section 251.725 to read as follows:
28	21		Sec. 251.725. CHANGE OF STATUS FOR CERTAIN TERRITORY
29	22		ANNEXED BY MUNICIPALITY. (a) This section applies only to a
30	23		municipality whose local option status allows for the legal sale of
31	24		beer and wine for off-premise consumption only as a result of a
32	25		local option election on the applicable ballot issue held on or
33	26		after January 1, 1985.
34	27		(b) The governing body of a municipality described by
35	28		Subsection (a) may adopt an ordinance authorizing the sale of beer
36	29		and wine for off-premise consumption in an area annexed by the
37	30		municipality after that election if at the time the ordinance is
38	31		adopted:
39	32		(1) the annexed area is not more than one percent of
40	33		the total area covered by the municipality;
41	34		(2) all of the land in the annexed area is zoned for
42	35		commercial use only; and
43	36		(3) the annexed area is not adjacent to residential,
44	37		church, or school property.
45	38		SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies to an
46	39		area annexed or acquired by a municipality before, on, or after the
47	40		effective date of this Act.
48	41		SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
49	42		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
50	43		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
51	44		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
52	45		Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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	46	+	______________________________ ______________________________
	47	+	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
	48	+	I certify that H.B. No. 2735 was passed by the House on April
	49	+	16, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	50	+	voting.
	51	+	______________________________
	52	+	Chief Clerk of the House
	53	+	I certify that H.B. No. 2735 was passed by the Senate on May
	54	+	20, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
	55	+	______________________________
	56	+	Secretary of the Senate
	57	+	APPROVED: _____________________
	58	+	Date
	59	+	_____________________
	60	+	Governor