By: Sheffield of Bell (Senate Sponsor - Carona) H.B. No. 2818
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2013;
  May 10, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Business
  and Commerce; May 17, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable
  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0;
  May 17, 2013, sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2818 By:  Carona
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to certain local option elections and the permits and
  licenses that can be issued in areas that approved the sale of
  certain alcoholic beverages in a local option election.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 25, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended
  by adding Section 25.14 to read as follows:
         Sec. 25.14.  ISSUANCE OF PERMIT AUTHORIZED FOR CERTAIN
  AREAS. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a
  permit under this chapter may be issued for a premises in an area in
  which the voters have approved the following alcoholic beverage
  ballot issues in a local option election:
               (1)  "The legal sale of beer and wine for off-premise
  consumption only."; and
               (2)  either:
                     (A)  "The legal sale of mixed beverages."; or
                     (B)  "The legal sale of mixed beverages in
  restaurants by food and beverage certificate holders only."
         (b)  A premises that qualifies for a permit under this
  chapter because it is located in an area that approved the ballot
  issue described by Subsection (a)(2)(B) may be issued a permit
  under this chapter only if the premises is issued a food and
  beverage certificate.
         SECTION 2.  Chapter 69, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended
  by adding Section 69.17 to read as follows:
         Sec. 69.17.  ISSUANCE OF LICENSE AUTHORIZED FOR CERTAIN
  AREAS. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a
  license under this chapter may be issued for a premises in an area
  in which the voters have approved the following alcoholic beverage
  ballot issues in a local option election:
               (1)  "The legal sale of beer and wine for off-premise
  consumption only."; and
               (2)  either:
                     (A)  "The legal sale of mixed beverages."; or
                     (B)  "The legal sale of mixed beverages in
  restaurants by food and beverage certificate holders only."
         (b)  A premises that qualifies for a license under this
  chapter because it is located in an area that approved the ballot
  issue described by Subsection (a)(2)(B) may be issued a license
  under this chapter only if the premises is issued a food and
  beverage certificate.
         SECTION 3.  Chapter 70, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended
  by adding Section 70.04 to read as follows:
         Sec. 70.04.  ISSUANCE OF LICENSE AUTHORIZED FOR CERTAIN
  AREAS. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a
  license under this chapter may be issued for a premises in an area
  in which the voters have approved the following alcoholic beverage
  ballot issues in a local option election:
               (1)  "The legal sale of beer and wine for off-premise
  consumption only."; and
               (2)  either:
                     (A)  "The legal sale of mixed beverages."; or
                     (B)  "The legal sale of mixed beverages in
  restaurants by food and beverage certificate holders only."
         (b)  A premises that qualifies for a license under this
  chapter because it is located in an area that approved the ballot
  issue described by Subsection (a)(2)(B) may be issued a license
  under this chapter only if the premises is issued a food and
  beverage certificate.
         SECTION 4.  Section 251.72, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 251.72.  CHANGE OF STATUS. Except as provided in
  Sections [Section] 251.73 and 251.80 [of this code], an authorized
  voting unit that has exercised or may exercise the right of local
  option retains the status adopted, whether absolute prohibition or
  legalization of the sale of alcoholic beverages of one or more of
  the various types and alcoholic contents on which an issue may be
  submitted under the terms of Section 501.035, Election Code, until
  that status is changed by a subsequent local option election in the
  same authorized voting unit.
         SECTION 5.  Section 251.80, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
  amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to
  read as follows:
         (a)  A local option election held in a justice precinct shall
  be held in the territory comprising the justice precinct at the time
  the election is held. If a justice precinct has established
  [Whenever] a local option status as a result of a previous local
  option election [is once legally put into effect as the result of
  the vote] in the [a] justice precinct, such status shall remain in
  effect until the status is changed as the result of a subsequent
  local option election [vote] in the [same territory that comprised
  the] precinct [when such status was established]. If the
  boundaries of the justice precinct have changed since such status
  was established, [the commissioners court shall, for purposes of] a
  subsequent local option election will only change the local option
  status in the territory that is part of the justice [, define the
  boundaries of the original] precinct on the date of the subsequent
  local option election[. A local option election may be held within
  the territory defined by the commissioners court as constituting
  such original precinct].
         (a-1)  For purposes of a local option election, a newly
  created justice precinct shall be considered to have not held a
  local option election on the sale of alcoholic beverages. Any local
  option status established in the territory comprising the new
  justice precinct that resulted from a local option election held in
  the territory when the territory was part of another justice
  precinct remains in effect until that status is changed by a local
  option election held in the new justice precinct.
         SECTION 6.  Section 251.80(c), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
  repealed.
         SECTION 7.  Sections 25.14, 69.17, and 70.04, Alcoholic
  Beverage Code, as added by this Act, apply to a permit or license
  issued on or after the effective date of this Act regardless of when
  the local option election approving the sale of mixed beverages was
  held.
         SECTION 8.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
 
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