HBA-CMT H.B. 1524 77(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 1524 By: Wilson Licensing & Administrative Procedures 3/20/2001 Introduced BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) issues over 60 different licenses and permits in the regulation of alcoholic beverages. Streamlining the types of permits in certain cases will eliminate confusion and ease the administrative burden for TABC and businesses applying for or holding permits. House Bill 1524 combines two different permits, the industrial and local industrial alcohol manufacturer's permit, into one permit. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS House Bill 1524 amends the Alcoholic Beverage Code to authorize the holder of an industrial permit to manufacture, rectify, and refine industrial alcohol, denture alcohol, sell dentured or industrial produced alcohol, and blend industrial alcohol produced under the permit with petroleum distillates and sell or use the resulting product as a motor fuel. The bill prohibits an industrial permittee from transporting the alcohol produced under the industrial permit unless all of the necessary documents required by the Alcoholic Beverage Code are prepared. The bill repeals law relating to a local industrial alcohol manufacturer's permit (local permit) and transfers other provisions relating to the local permit to the chapter of the Alcoholic Beverage Code governing industrial permits such that those transferred provisions now apply to industrial permits. EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2001.