By: Parker S.B. No. 2334

(In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2025; March 25, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; May 5, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 5, 2025, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2334 By: Parker

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the storage of alcoholic beverages by an airline passenger transportation permittee.

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

SECTION 1. Section 48.03(b), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended to read as follows:

(b) The holder of a passenger transportation permit issued under this section may:

(1) sell or serve alcoholic beverages in or from any size container on a commercial passenger airplane operated in compliance with a valid license, permit, or certificate issued under the authority of the United States or of this state, even though the plane, in the course of its flight, may cross an area in which the sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited; and

(2) store alcoholic beverages in sealed containers of any size at any airport regularly served by the permittee or within the same county as and within five miles of any airport regularly served by the permittee, in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the commission.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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