85R1784 JAM-D By: Hernandez H.B. No. 649 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the protest of an application for certain alcoholic beverage permits. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 11, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended by adding Section 11.411 to read as follows: Sec. 11.411. ANONYMOUS PROTEST OF CERTAIN PERMIT APPLICATIONS. A person, other than a local official acting under Section 11.41, may anonymously protest the application for a permit under Chapter 28 or 29. SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only to an application for a permit filed on or after the effective date of this Act. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.