BILL ANALYSIS
Licensing & Administrative Procedures
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
H.B. 2526 from the 79th Regular Session modernized and updated several marketing practices by creating a promotional permit and authorizing certain promotional activities on behalf of distillers, brewers, rectifiers, manufacturers, wineries, and wine bottlers.
HB 1365 will redesignate the chapter added by H.B. 2526 (79R) as Chapter 50 of the Alcoholic Beverage Code and will provide that the holder of a promotional permit does not have to be a Texas resident.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
HB 1365 amends the Alcoholic Beverage Code by redisignating Chapter 54, Promotional Permits, as Chapter 50, Alcoholic Beverage Code and adds a new Section 50.004 to provide that the holder of a promotional permit is not required to be a Texas resident.
EFFECTIVE DATE
Immediately, or, if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act takes effect September 1, 2007.