84R5161 JAM-F
By: Capriglione H.B. No. 3038
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages in areas annexed or
owned by certain municipalities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 251.72, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 251.72. CHANGE OF STATUS. Except as provided in
Sections 251.725, 251.73, and 251.80, 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 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 251, Alcoholic Beverage
Code, is amended by adding Section 251.725 to read as follows:
Sec. 251.725. CHANGE OF STATUS FOR TERRITORY ANNEXED OR
OWNED BY CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) This section applies only to
a municipality that:
(1) is partially located in three counties, two of
which have a population of 1.8 million or more;
(2) is primarily located in a county with a population
of 1.8 million or more; and
(3) has within its boundaries all or part of an
international airport operated jointly by two municipalities.
(b) Notwithstanding any other law:
(1) an area annexed to a municipality to which this
section applies assumes the wet or dry status of that municipality;
and
(2) an area contiguous to and owned by a municipality
to which this section applies assumes the wet or dry status of that
municipality.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies to an
area annexed or acquired by a municipality before, on, or after the
effective date of this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.