88R12265 MPF-D
By: Harris of Anderson H.B. No. 3975
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the payment for liquor by a wholesaler.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 102.31(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) This section applies to:
(1) the sale of malt beverages or malt beverage
containers or the original packages in which malt beverages are
received, packaged, or contained by a distributor's licensee to a
retail dealer's on-premise or off-premise licensee, a wine and malt
beverage retailer's permittee, or a wine and malt beverage
retailer's off-premise permittee; [and]
(2) the sale of malt beverages by a local distributor's
permittee, or by any licensee authorized to sell those beverages
for resale, to a mixed beverage permittee;
(3) the sale of liquor by a distiller's and rectifier's
permittee, winery permittee, rectifier who is a nonresident
seller's permittee, or by any permittee authorized to sell those
beverages for resale to a wholesaler's permittee;
(4) the sale of vinous liquors by a distiller's and
rectifier's permittee, winery permittee, wine manufacturer who is a
nonresident seller's permittee, or by any permittee authorized to
sell those beverages for resale to a class B wholesaler permittee;
and
(5) the sale of liquor by any permittee authorized to
sell those beverages for resale to a local distributor's permittee.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.