LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD

Austin, Texas

FISCAL NOTE, 78TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION

May 7, 2003

TO:	Honorable Troy Fraser, Chair, Senate Committee on Business & Commerce
FROM:	John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	HB1199 by Krusee (Relating to local option elections for the sale of alcoholic beverages; providing a criminal penalty. ), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The bill would amend the Alcoholic Beverage Code as it relates to the procedures for local option elections for the sale of alcoholic beverages, addressing requirements for petitions for an election, verification of the petition, contesting the election, and creating as a Class B misdemeanor the offense of misrepresenting the purpose or effect of a petition issued under Chapter 251, Alcoholic Beverage Code.

One section of the bill would address an application pending before May 1, 2003 for a permit to upgrade from the sale of beer and wine to the sale of mixed beverages. That section would expire on September 1, 2004.

The bill would take effect September 1, 2003 and would apply only to a local option election for which an application for a petition is filed on or after that date.

Local Government Impact

No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.

Source Agencies:

LBB Staff:

JK, JRO, DLBa