Bill Text: TX SB1210 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 1210 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the removal, destruction, and disposal of certain alcoholic beverages that become unfit for consumption after a natural disaster.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB1210 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB1210-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Hancock	S.B. No. 1210
	(In the Senate - Filed February 27, 2019; March 7, 2019,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce;
	April 8, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
	Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 8, 2019,
	sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1210	By: Hancock


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the removal of certain alcoholic beverages that become
	unfit for consumption after a natural disaster.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter A, Chapter 109,
	Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended to read as follows:
	SUBCHAPTER A. SALVAGED AND INSURED LOSSES; UNINSURED LOSSES
	SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 109, Alcoholic Beverage
	Code, is amended by adding Section 109.09 to read as follows:
	Sec. 109.09. REMOVAL OF UNINSURED BEVERAGES UNFIT FOR
	CONSUMPTION. (a) Uninsured ale, malt liquor, or beer that becomes
	unfit for public consumption, as described by Section 103.07(b),
	may be removed from the inventory of a retailer if the holder of the
	brewer's permit or manufacturer's license who manufactured the
	beverage and the wholesaler or distributor that distributed the
	beverage jointly determine that the beverage:
	(1) became unfit for public consumption as the result
	of a natural disaster in an area declared to be a disaster under
	Section 418.014, Government Code; and
	(2) should be removed from the inventory of the
	retailer.
	(b) A manufacturer or brewer and a wholesaler or distributor
	who agree to the removal of a beverage under Subsection (a) must
	hold the retailer from whose inventory the beverage is removed
	harmless for the cost of the replacement of the removed beverage.
	(c) The commission by rule may provide requirements
	governing the disposal or destruction by a retailer of uninsured
	ale, malt liquor, or beer that is determined to be unfit for public
	consumption under this section.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.

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