By: Geren H.B. No. 4456
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, 251.726, 251.727, 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. 251.727. 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 five counties, one of
which has a population of 1.8 million or more and that is adjacent
to a county with a population of more than 2.2 million;
(2) may annex an area on request of owners under
Subchapter C-3, Chapter 43, Local Government Code and that is part
of a limited purpose annexation and development agreement under
Chapter 212, Local Government Code; 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, 2019.