By: Geren (Senate Sponsor - Hancock) H.B. No. 4456

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2019; April 30, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce; May 10, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 10, 2019, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages in areas annexed or owned by certain municipalities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 251.726(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) This section applies only to a municipality that has within its boundaries all or part of an international airport operated jointly by two municipalities and:

(1) that is:

(A) partially located in three counties, two of which have a population of 1.8 million or more; and

(B) [(2) is] primarily located in a county with a population of 1.8 million or more; or

(2) that:

(A) is partially located in five counties, one of which:

(i) has a population of 1.8 million or more; and

(ii) is adjacent to a county with a population of 2.2 million or more;

(B) is subject to a limited purpose annexation and development agreement under Subchapter G, Chapter 212, Local Government Code; and

(C) may annex an area on request of the owners of land in the area under Subchapter C-3, Chapter 43, Local Government Code [(3) has within its boundaries all or part of an international airport operated jointly by two municipalities].

SECTION 2. 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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.

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