Bill Text: TX HB3693 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to package store permits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-30 - Left pending in committee [HB3693 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3693-Introduced.html
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| By: Geren | H.B. No. 3693 | |
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| relating to package store permits. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 22, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended | ||
| by adding a new Section 22.51 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 22.51. MORATORIUM AND LIMITATION ON THE ISSUANCE OF | ||
| NEW PACKAGE STORE PERMITS. The commission shall temporarily freeze | ||
| the number of package store permits issued in this state. The | ||
| commission shall adopt rules and regulations which prohibit | ||
| issuance of new package store permits in any county in which the | ||
| number of package store permits exceeds one per every 15,000 in | ||
| population according to the most recent federal census. The rules | ||
| shall include a procedure for issuance of new package store permits | ||
| by lottery in counties in which new package store permits are | ||
| authorized under this limit. The rules shall provide that a minimum | ||
| of 2 package store permits may be authorized in every county. The | ||
| rules shall provide that package store permits within a county | ||
| shall be grandfathered, and may be moved to a different location | ||
| within the same county. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act take effect | ||
| only if Section 22.16, Alcoholic Beverage Code, as that section | ||
| existed on May 1, 2019, is: | ||
| (1) repealed by an Act of the 86th Legislature, | ||
| Regular Session, 2019; or | ||
| (2) found invalid or unconstitutional by the supreme | ||
| court or a lower court and that finding is final and not appealable. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2019. | ||
