By Yarbrough H.B. No. 2346
2001S0625/1
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the minimum size of a container of liquor.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 101.46, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 101.46. CONTAINERS OF LIQUOR; MINIMUM CAPACITIES.
1-7 (a) Except as provided by Subsections (b), (c), and (d) of this
1-8 section, no person may import, sell, or possess with intent to sell
1-9 any liquor in a container with a capacity of less than 1.6 [six]
1-10 fluid ounces.
1-11 (b) Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to
1-12 permittees or licensees while engaged in supplying airline beverage
1-13 or mixed beverage permittees, nor to the possession or sale of
1-14 liquor by an airline beverage or mixed beverage permittee, but none
1-15 of the permittees or licensees covered by this subsection may
1-16 possess liquor in a container with a capacity of less than one
1-17 fluid ounce.
1-18 (c) Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to liquor
1-19 imported under Section 107.07 of this code.
1-20 (d) Spirit coolers, as described by the definition of
1-21 "distilled spirits" in Section 1.04 of this code, may be sold in
1-22 containers with a capacity of less than 355 milliliters as well as
1-23 in containers with any other capacity authorized by this code for
1-24 distilled spirits.
2-1 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.