By: Hancock  S.B. No. 1519
         (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2017; March 20, 2017, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce;
  April 3, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 3, 2017,
  sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1519 By:  Hancock
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the definition of a public entertainment facility and
  the promotion, sponsorship, or advertising of an entertainment
  event or venue or alcoholic beverage at certain governmentally
  owned public entertainment facilities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 108.73(2), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
               (2)  "Public entertainment facility" means an arena,
  stadium, automobile race track, amphitheater, auditorium, theater,
  civic center, convention center, or similar facility that is
  primarily designed and used for live artistic, theatrical,
  cultural, educational, charitable, musical, sporting, nationally
  sanctioned automobile racing, or entertainment events. The term
  includes a facility that is part of an approved venue project,
  including the venue and related infrastructure, as those terms are
  defined by Section 334.001, Local Government Code. The term does
  not include a facility the primary purpose of which is the sale of
  food or alcoholic beverages, including a bar, nightclub,
  restaurant, hotel, bowling alley, pool hall, or dance hall, or a
  facility that derives 75 percent or more of the facility's annual
  gross revenue from the on-premise sale of alcoholic beverages,
  except for a facility that is part of an approved venue project,
  including the venue and related infrastructure, as those terms are
  defined by Section 334.001, Local Government Code.
         SECTION 2.  Section 108.755(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  Section 108.75 does not restrict or govern the
  promotion, sponsorship, or advertising of an entertainment event,
  or the promotion or advertising of an alcoholic beverage brand or
  product, at a facility that is:
               (1)  owned by a municipality or county that is financed
  with public securities, the interest on which is exempt from
  federal income taxation under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; or
               (2)  part of an approved venue project, including the
  venue and related infrastructure, as those terms are defined by
  Section 334.001, Local Government Code.
         SECTION 3.  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, 2017.
 
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