84R10882 AJA-D
 
  By: Capriglione, Springer H.B. No. 2735
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages in certain areas
  annexed by a municipality.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 251.72, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 251.72.  CHANGE OF STATUS.  Except as provided in
  Sections 251.725, 251.73, and 251.80, 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 2.  Subchapter D, Chapter 251, Alcoholic Beverage
  Code, is amended by adding Section 251.725 to read as follows:
         Sec. 251.725.  CHANGE OF STATUS FOR CERTAIN TERRITORY
  ANNEXED BY MUNICIPALITY. (a) This section applies only to a
  municipality whose local option status allows for the legal sale of
  beer and wine for off-premise consumption only as a result of a
  local option election on the applicable ballot issue held on or
  after January 1, 1985.
         (b)  The governing body of a municipality described by
  Subsection (a) may adopt an ordinance authorizing the sale of beer
  and wine for off-premise consumption in an area annexed by the
  municipality after that election if at the time the ordinance is
  adopted:
               (1)  the annexed area is not more than one percent of
  the total area covered by the municipality;
               (2)  all of the land in the annexed area is zoned for
  commercial use only; and
               (3)  the annexed area is not adjacent to residential,
  church, or school property.
         SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies to an
  area annexed or acquired by a municipality before, on, or after the
  effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2015.