By:  Wilson                                            H.B. No. 700
       73R1047 DWS-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to alcoholic beverage seller training programs conducted
    1-3  by certain hotel management companies or hotel operating companies.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 106.14, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
    1-7        (d)  The commission may approve under this section a seller
    1-8  training program conducted by a hotel management company or a hotel
    1-9  operating company for the employees of five or more hotels operated
   1-10  or managed by the company if:
   1-11              (1)  the seller training program is administered
   1-12  through the corporate offices of the company; and
   1-13              (2)  the hotels employ a total of at least 200 persons
   1-14  at one time during the license or permit year who sell, serve, or
   1-15  prepare alcoholic beverages.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.