By: Geren (Senate Sponsor - Hancock) H.B. No. 4456
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2019;
April 30, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
Business & Commerce; May 10, 2019, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 10, 2019, sent to printer.)
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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 251.726(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) This section applies only to a municipality that has
within its boundaries all or part of an international airport
operated jointly by two municipalities and:
(1) that is:
(A) partially located in three counties, two of
which have a population of 1.8 million or more; and
(B) [(2) is] primarily located in a county with
a population of 1.8 million or more; or
(2) that:
(A) is partially located in five counties, one of
which:
(i) has a population of 1.8 million or more;
and
(ii) is adjacent to a county with a
population of 2.2 million or more;
(B) is subject to a limited purpose annexation
and development agreement under Subchapter G, Chapter 212, Local
Government Code; and
(C) may annex an area on request of the owners of
land in the area under Subchapter C-3, Chapter 43, Local Government
Code [(3) has within its boundaries all or part of an
international airport operated jointly by two municipalities].
SECTION 2. 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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