By: Springer S.B. No. 1948
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating the delivery of alcoholic beverages from certain premises
to ultimate consumers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 22.03, Subtitle A, Title 3, Alcoholic
Beverage Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 22.03. DELIVERIES TO CUSTOMERS. (a) The holder of a
package store permit or wine only package store permit [issued for a
location within a city or town or within two miles of the corporate
limits of a city or town] may make deliveries of and collections for
alcoholic beverages off the premises [in areas where the sale of the
beverages is legal]. The permittee must [travel by the most direct
route and may] make deliveries and collections [only within the
county or the city or town or within two miles of its corporate
limits, and] only in response to bona fide orders placed by the
customer, either in person at the premises, in writing, by mail,
[or] by telegraph, [or] by telephone or other electronic means.
This section shall not be construed as preventing a holder of a
package store permit or wine only package store permit from
delivering alcoholic beverages to the holder of a carrier's permit
for transportation to persons who have placed bona fide orders and
who are located in an area that the holder of a package store permit
or wine only package store permit is authorized to directly deliver
to under this section. The holder of a package store permit or wine
only package store permit may also deliver alcoholic beverages to
the holder of a carrier's permit for transportation outside of this
state in response to bona fide orders placed by persons authorized
to purchase the beverages.
(b) The holder of a package store permit may transport
alcoholic beverages to a commercial airline in a regional airport
located all or partly in an adjoining county if the airport is
governed by a board, commission, or authority, some of whose
members reside in the county where the package store is located.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2021.