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  By: Clardy (Senate Sponsor - Nichols) H.B. No. 601
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 20, 2015;
  April 27, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Business and Commerce; May 7, 2015, reported favorably by the
  following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 7, 2015, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote
 
 
 
  COMMITTEE VOTE
 
 
         YeaNayAbsentPNV
         EltifeX
         CreightonX
         EllisX
         HuffinesX
         SchwertnerX
         SeligerX
         TaylorofGalvestonX
         WatsonX
         WhitmireX
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the premises covered by mixed beverage permits for
  certain county-owned facilities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 28, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended
  by adding Section 28.135 to read as follows:
         Sec. 28.135.  DESIGNATION OF LICENSED PREMISES FOR PERMITS
  COVERING CERTAIN COUNTY-OWNED FACILITIES. (a) This section
  applies only to a facility that is:
               (1)  partially located in a municipality that:
                     (A)  has a population of less than 40,000; and 
                     (B)  is located in a county with a population less
  than 70,000; and
               (2)  a county-owned civic center that consists of
  adjacent buildings not all of which are located in the municipality
  described by Subdivision (1).
         (b)  Notwithstanding any other law, all buildings comprising
  a facility described by Subsection (a) may be designated as and
  considered the licensed premises for purposes of a mixed beverage
  permit covering the facility.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
 
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