88R12265 MPF-D     By: Harris of Anderson H.B. No. 3975       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the payment for liquor by a wholesaler.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 102.31(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is   amended to read as follows:          (a)  This section applies to:                (1)  the sale of malt beverages or malt beverage   containers or the original packages in which malt beverages are   received, packaged, or contained by a distributor's licensee to a   retail dealer's on-premise or off-premise licensee, a wine and malt   beverage retailer's permittee, or a wine and malt beverage   retailer's off-premise permittee; [and]                (2)  the sale of malt beverages by a local distributor's   permittee, or by any licensee authorized to sell those beverages   for resale, to a mixed beverage permittee;                (3)  the sale of liquor by a distiller's and rectifier's   permittee, winery permittee, rectifier who is a nonresident   seller's permittee, or by any permittee authorized to sell those   beverages for resale to a wholesaler's permittee;                (4)  the sale of vinous liquors by a distiller's and   rectifier's permittee, winery permittee, wine manufacturer who is a   nonresident seller's permittee, or by any permittee authorized to   sell those beverages for resale to a class B wholesaler permittee;   and                (5)  the sale of liquor by any permittee authorized to   sell those beverages for resale to a local distributor's permittee.          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.