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