By: Toth (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 763
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 2021;
May 4, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Business &
Commerce; May 13, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 13, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the handling of illicit alcoholic beverages seized by a
peace officer.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 103.06, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 103.06. BEVERAGE SEIZED BY PEACE OFFICER [DELIVERED TO
COMMISSION]. Any alcoholic beverage, its container, and its
packaging which has been seized by a peace officer, as provided in
Section 103.03:
(1) [of this code,] may not be replevied; and
(2) shall be:
(A) destroyed or disposed of by a peace officer;
or
(B) [be] delivered to the commission for
immediate public or private sale in the manner the commission
considers best.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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