85R1784 JAM-D
 
  By: Hernandez H.B. No. 649
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the protest of an application for certain alcoholic
  beverage permits.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 11, Alcoholic Beverage
  Code, is amended by adding Section 11.411 to read as follows:
         Sec. 11.411.  ANONYMOUS PROTEST OF CERTAIN PERMIT
  APPLICATIONS. A person, other than a local official acting under
  Section 11.41, may anonymously protest the application for a permit
  under Chapter 28 or 29.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to an application for a permit filed on or after the effective date
  of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.