By:  Yost                                              H.B. No. 745
       73R3009 DWS-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to creation of an offense involving presence of a minor on
    1-3  premises covered by an alcoholic beverage permit or license.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 106, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended
    1-6  by adding Section 106.15 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 106.15.  PRESENCE OF MINOR ON LICENSED PREMISES.
    1-8  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section:
    1-9              (1)  a minor may not be on premises covered by a permit
   1-10  or license issued under this code; and
   1-11              (2)  the holder of a permit or license issued under
   1-12  this code may not allow a minor to be on the premises covered by
   1-13  the permit or license.
   1-14        (b)  This section does not apply if:
   1-15              (1)  the minor at all times while on the premises is in
   1-16  the presence of the minor's parent or adult spouse or an adult
   1-17  person into whose custody a court has committed the minor;
   1-18              (2)  the business operated on the premises derives:
   1-19                    (A)  70 percent or more of its gross revenues
   1-20  from the sale of food, gasoline, and other goods, not including
   1-21  alcoholic beverages or tickets to live performances; or
   1-22                    (B)  80 percent or more of its gross revenues
   1-23  from the sale of tickets to live performances; or
   1-24              (3)  the minor's presence is in the course of
    2-1  employment permitted under this code.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.