BILL ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 2598

By: Thompson

Licensing & Administrative Procedures

Committee Report (Substituted)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Currently, Section 11.38(d)(3), Alcoholic Beverage Code, provides an exemption for local fees for mixed beverage permits during the first three-year period following the issuance of the permit.

C.S.H.B. 2598 authorizes the governing body of a city or town to levy and collect a fee of $750 for each mixed beverage permit issued for premises located within the city or town for each of the first three years following the issuance of the permit.

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

C.S.H.B. 2598 amends the Alcoholic Beverage Code to authorize the governing body of a city or town to levy and collect, in addition to any local fee levied or collected, a fee of $750 for each mixed beverage permit issued for premises located within the city or town for each of the first three years following the issuance of the permit. The bill specifies that this fee is in addition to any local fee the governing body is authorized to levy and collect for such a permit.

EFFECTIVE DATE

September 1, 2009.

COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE

C.S.H.B. 2598 differs from the original by restoring language struck in the original that removes a mixed beverage permit, during the three-year period following the issuance of the permit, from the types of alcoholic beverage permits that are exempt from a local fee. The substitute adds a provision not in the original authorizing the governing body of a city or town to levy and collect a fee of $750 for each mixed beverage permit issued for premises located within the city or town for each of the first three years following the issuance of the permit, in addition to any local fee for such a permit.