By: Harris (Senate Sponsor - Nichols) H.B. No. 1729
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 6, 2021;
  April 12, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Business & Commerce; May 10, 2021, reported adversely, with
  favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7,    
  Nays 0; May 10, 2021, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1729 By:  Hancock
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages in areas annexed by
  certain municipalities.
         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, 251.726, 251.727, 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 251.727 to read as follows:
         Sec. 251.727.  CHANGE OF STATUS FOR TERRITORY ANNEXED BY
  MUNICIPALITIES IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) This section applies only
  to:
               (1)  a municipality that contains U.S. Highway 287 and
  State Highway 294 and is located in a county with a population of
  not less than 57,000 and not more than 59,000 on September 1, 2021;
  or
               (2)  a municipality that:
                     (A)  has a municipal boundary located not more
  than 1.5 miles from an automobile racetrack with a seating capacity
  of more than 100,000;
                     (B)  has a population of more than 1,000 and less
  than 3,000; and
                     (C)  is located entirely within a county with a
  population of more than 650,000 that is adjacent to two counties,
  each of which has a population of more than 1.8 million.
         (b)  Notwithstanding any other law, an area annexed to a
  municipality to which this section applies automatically assumes
  the wet or dry status of that municipality on annexation.
         SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies to an
  area annexed by a municipality before, on, or after the effective
  date of this Act.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
 
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