Bill Text: TX HB420 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to the offense of providing an alcoholic beverage to a minor; increasing a criminal penalty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB420 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB420-Enrolled.html
 
 
  H.B. No. 420
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the offense of providing an alcoholic beverage to a
  minor; increasing a criminal penalty.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  This Act may be cited as Kyle and Ethan's Law.
         SECTION 2.  Section 106.06(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, as
  amended by Chapters 437 (S.B. 55) and 934 (H.B. 1445), Acts of the
  73rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is reenacted and amended
  to read as follows:
         (a)  Except as provided in Subsection (b) [of this section],
  a person commits an offense if the person [he] purchases an
  alcoholic beverage for or gives [or with criminal negligence makes
  available] an alcoholic beverage to a minor [with criminal
  negligence].
         SECTION 3.  Section 106.06, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
  amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to
  read as follows:
         (c)  Except as provided by Subsection (c-1), an [An] offense
  under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
         (c-1)  An offense under this section is a state jail felony
  if it is shown on the trial of the offense that the person purchased
  an alcoholic beverage for or gave an alcoholic beverage to a minor
  who, as a result of the consumption of the alcoholic beverage,
  caused another person to suffer serious bodily injury or death.
         SECTION 4.  The changes in law made by this Act apply 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 when the offense was committed, and that law is
  continued in effect for that purpose. For the purposes of this
  section, an offense is committed before the effective date of this
  Act if any element of the offense occurs before that date.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 420 was passed by the House on April
  20, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 146, Nays 0, 1 present, not
  voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
  No. 420 on May 24, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 142, Nays 2, 1
  present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 420 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 19, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
  0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor       
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