By: Goldman (Senate Sponsor - Watson) H.B. No. 2792
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2019;
April 30, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
Business & Commerce; May 15, 2019, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 15, 2019, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to making a false statement or false representation in
certain documents filed with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage
Commission.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 101.69, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 101.69. FALSE STATEMENT. Except as provided in
Section 103.05(d), a person who knowingly makes a false statement
or false representation in an application for a permit or license or
in a statement, report, or other instrument to be filed with the
commission and required to be sworn commits an offense punishable
by imprisonment in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for not
less than 2 nor more than 10 years.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
before that date.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
* * * * *