H.B. No. 824
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages to customers of a
  package store during certain hours.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 22, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended
  by adding Section 22.17 to read as follows:
         Sec. 22.17.  SALE TO CUSTOMER IN STORE AT CLOSING.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, if a customer has
  entered a package store during hours in which the package store may
  sell alcohol and is still in the store at the time the hours of legal
  sale end, the permittee may allow the customer to remain in the
  store for a reasonable amount of time to finish shopping, and the
  permittee may sell an alcoholic beverage to that customer even
  though the sale occurs after the designated end of the hours of
  legal sale.
         SECTION 2.  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, 2015.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 824 was passed by the House on April
  23, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 139, Nays 0, 2 present, not
  voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
  H.B. No. 824 on May 29, 2015, and requested the appointment of a
  conference committee to consider the differences between the two
  houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
  on H.B. No. 824 on May 31, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 144,
  Nays 0, 2 present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 824 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 27, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 28, Nays
  3; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
  committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
  that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
  824 on May 31, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 28, Nays 3.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor