Texas alcohol laws

What it would do: Restricts consumable hemp products to only cannabidiol or cannabigerol, requires manufacturers to pay $10,000 licensing fees and retailers to pay $20,000 registration fees, prohibits sales to persons under 21, and creates criminal offenses for violations including manufacturing restricted products and sales near schools.

What it would do: Creates a tax credit for eligible alcoholic beverage taxpayers who donate spent grain byproducts for agricultural use within 100 miles of production, equal to $0.08 per pound of dry weight, capped at $30,000 or total taxes paid annually, whichever is less.

What it would do: Increases the alcohol content threshold for lower-taxed vinous liquor from 14 percent to 16 percent by volume, maintaining the tax rate of 20.4 cents per gallon for vinous liquor not exceeding 16 percent alcohol and 40.8 cents per gallon for vinous liquor exceeding 16 percent alcohol.

What it would do: Allows brewer's license holders to transfer malt beverages between their licensed brewery premises and brewpub license holders to transfer beverages between their brewpubs under the same ownership or management, subject to commission rules and motor vehicle marking requirements.

What it would do: Allows the head of a family or unmarried adult to home-produce up to 200 gallons per year of wine, malt beverages, or liquor without a license, expanding current law to include liquor production alongside wine and malt beverages.

What it would do: Requires certain businesses to display signs in English and Spanish notifying that licensed handgun carriers cannot carry on premises, with the sign including the number '51' and a reporting phone number. Imposes $1,000 penalty for first violation and license revocation for subsequent violations.

What it would do: Expands municipalities eligible for local option elections on alcoholic beverage sales to include those with 240,000+ population in multiple counties bordering man-made lakes of 20,000+ acres. Authorizes municipalities to adopt zoning and land use regulations for premises selling alcoholic beverages in designated zones.

What it would do: Removes the prohibition on allowing excessive discounts to mixed beverage permittees and repeals the provision prohibiting excessive discounts to retailers, while maintaining other restrictions on supplier conduct toward permittees and retailers.

What it would do: Requires distiller and rectifier permit holders to provide invoices to wholesalers and restricts credit sales to 30 days. Authorizes the commission to maintain a delinquency list and prohibit permit renewal, transfer, or cancellation for delinquent wholesalers.

What it would do: Creates a spirit cooler certificate allowing certain alcohol retailers to sell ready-to-drink spirit beverages containing less than 17 percent alcohol by volume. Establishes territorial limits, wholesaler-retailer agreements, and fair dealing protections for spirit cooler distribution.

What it would do: Allows nonresident seller's permit holders who hold a winery permit issued on or before May 1, 2010 for a winery in a municipality with population between 130,000-150,000 in three counties to hold an interest in liquor import businesses, and prohibits such permit holders from selling wine to themselves.

What it would do: Creates a wine, malt beverage, and food permit for winery permit holders or brewery license holders who operate restaurants on their premises, allowing them to sell wine and malt beverages for on-site consumption with food available at all times.

What it would do: Amends the Tax Code to require brewers, brewpubs, wholesalers, distributors, and package store local distributors to file monthly reports by the 25th of each month containing detailed sales information by retailer, including retailer identification, sales units, container sizes, brand names, beverage types, and net selling prices.

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What it would do: Prohibits sale or delivery of consumable hemp products to persons under 21 years of age as a Class A misdemeanor, prohibits minors from purchasing such products as a Class C misdemeanor with potential license suspension and community service, and prohibits persons under 21 from entering hemp product retailer premises or being employed there.

What it would do: Establishes a regulatory framework for consumable hemp products and hemp beverages under the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, including licensing requirements, a 6.25% sales and use tax, packaging restrictions, age verification requirements, and transfers regulatory authority from the Department of State Health Services effective January 1, 2027.

What it would do: Prohibits sale or delivery of consumable hemp products to persons under 21 years of age as a Class A misdemeanor, prohibits minors from purchasing such products as a Class C misdemeanor with potential license suspension, and prohibits employment of persons under 21 at hemp product retailers, effective January 1, 2026.

What it would do: Establishes a regulatory framework for consumable hemp products and hemp beverages under the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, effective January 1, 2027, including licensing requirements, permits, fees, a 6.25% sales and use tax, and prohibitions on certain mixtures and marketing practices.

What it would do: Creates a farm winery permit for winery permit holders producing at least 75 percent Texas wine, authorizing up to five off-site sales locations and 250,000 gallons annual off-premises sales, with an annual permit fee not exceeding $500.

What it would do: Defines spirit coolers as distilled spirits beverages with 0.5-17% alcohol content and allows wine only package store permittees, wine and malt beverage retailers, and wine and malt beverage off-premise permittees to purchase and sell spirit coolers in areas where alcohol sales are approved by voters.

What it would do: Allows package store, wholesaler, and local distributor permit holders to sell liquor on Sunday between specified hours in areas where Sunday liquor sales for off-premise consumption have been approved by local option election.

What it would do: Regulates consumable hemp products by requiring manufacturers to obtain licenses ($5,000 initial, $2,500 renewal per location) and retailers to register ($2,000 annually per location). Creates criminal offenses for violations including selling to minors, marketing to children, exceeding THC limits, and delivery by mail.

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What it would do: Amends the Alcoholic Beverage Code to require that an original package store permit be issued only for the same location where the existing business operated, and prohibits transferring a package store permit to another location.

What it would do: Repeals Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code sections 102.31, 102.32, and 61.73, which govern relations between malt beverage manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. Takes effect immediately if approved by two-thirds of both houses, otherwise September 1, 2025.