Bill Text: TX SB604 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages to customers of a package store during certain hours.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-21 - Left pending in committee [SB604 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB604-Introduced.html
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| By: Eltife | S.B. No. 604 | |
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| relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages to customers of a | ||
| package store during certain hours. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 22, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 22.17 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 22.17. SALE TO CUSTOMER IN STORE AT CLOSING. | ||
| Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, if a customer has | ||
| entered a package store during hours in which the package store may | ||
| sell alcohol and is still in the store at the time the hours of legal | ||
| sale end, the permittee may allow the customer to remain in the | ||
| store for a reasonable amount of time to finish shopping, and the | ||
| permittee may sell an alcoholic beverage to that customer even | ||
| though the sale occurs after the designated end of the hours of | ||
| legal sale. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2015. | ||
