H.B. No. 168




AN ACT

relating to the hours for selling alcoholic beverages at certain 
events.    
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Chapter 105, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended 
by adding Section 105.08 to read as follows:
	Sec. 105.08.  HOURS OF SALE AND CONSUMPTION:  CERTAIN 
EVENTS.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, in 
addition to any other period during which the sale and consumption 
of alcohol is authorized under this code:
		(1)  a licensed or permitted premises located at a 
festival, fair, or concert may sell alcoholic beverages between 10 
a.m. and noon;  and
		(2)  a person may consume alcoholic beverages at a 
festival, fair, or concert between 10 a.m. and noon.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 168 was passed by the House on April 
21, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 72, Nays 62, 2 present, not 
voting.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 168 was passed by the Senate on May 
12, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 1.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



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                 Governor