Bill Text: TX HB2792 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to making a false statement or false representation in certain documents filed with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2792 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2792-Enrolled.html
 
 
  H.B. No. 2792
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to making a false statement or false representation in
  certain documents filed with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage
  Commission.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 101.69, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 101.69.  FALSE STATEMENT. Except as provided in
  Section 103.05(d), a person who knowingly makes a false statement
  or false representation in an application for a permit or license or
  in a statement, report, or other instrument to be filed with the
  commission and required to be sworn commits an offense punishable
  by imprisonment in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for not
  less than 2 nor more than 10 years.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
  An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
  purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
  effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
  before that date.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 2792 was passed by the House on April
  26, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 137, Nays 2, 2 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 2792 was passed by the Senate on May
  21, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
  APPROVED:  _____________________
                     Date          
   
            _____________________
                   Governor       
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