Alcohol Education Resources

TABC offers free digital educational resources for alcoholic beverage retailers, law enforcement partners, and communities.

These resources will help owners and employees at bars, restaurants, grocery stores, convenience stores, package stores, and other retail locations learn about safe and responsible alcohol service.

• TABC Education Center: Get access to required and optional courses for retailers and employees.
• Videos:
  • Checking IDs video education: Learn about the best practices for checking IDs in Texas.
  • PSA on responsible alcohol service.
• Tips for refusing alcohol to intoxicated customers (PDF): View or print this document giving sellers and servers tips to prevent overservice and cut off a customer before they have too much to drink.
• Age Verification: Learn about laws passed by Texas to require age verification at certain businesses before selling or serving alcoholic beverages and cigarettes.

• Target Responsibility for Alcohol-Connected Emergencies (TRACE) video series: Learn about the TABC resources available to Texas law enforcement after an alcohol-connected emergency resulting in serious bodily injury or death. 
• Age Verification: Learn about laws passed by Texas to require age verification at certain businesses before selling or serving alcoholic beverages and cigarettes.
• Consumable Hemp Products (CHPs): Learn about TABC's rules for CHPs, which apply to TABC license and permit holders only.

• The Day After: Underage Drinking inTexas video: Join high school student Kyle and his friends as they learn about the legal penalties for underage drinking and providing alcohol to a minor, also known as social hosting.
• Social Hosting and Underage Drinking mini guide (PDF)
• Making Good Choices video: This animated video teaches kids to make health choices, like being physically active, refusing rides from strangers, and refusing adult beverages.