Fortunately, either that isn’t the case in Houston, or I’m too old-looking to even have heard about it.
Houston is all wet. A great deal of Texas is “dry” which means not really dry but that every bar and restaurant is really a private club. State law says they need to get your driver’s license number as a membership requirement if being served alcohol is a benefit of membership. You can forgoe the unicard, but then the take your license every time.