By: Kuempel (Senate Sponsor - Eltife) H.B. No. 824
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2015;
April 28, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
Business and Commerce; May 5, 2015, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 5, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages to customers of a
package store during certain hours.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 22, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended
by adding Section 22.17 to read as follows:
Sec. 22.17. SALE TO CUSTOMER IN STORE AT CLOSING.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, if a customer has
entered a package store during hours in which the package store may
sell alcohol and is still in the store at the time the hours of legal
sale end, the permittee may allow the customer to remain in the
store for a reasonable amount of time to finish shopping, and the
permittee may sell an alcoholic beverage to that customer even
though the sale occurs after the designated end of the hours of
legal sale.
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, 2015.
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