73R3353 DWS-D
          By Gutierrez                                           H.B. No. 908
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to extended hours for the sale, delivery, consumption, and
    1-3  possession of alcoholic beverages.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Sections 105.05(c) and (d), Alcoholic Beverage
    1-6  Code, are amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  In a county having a population of 500,000 <300,000> or
    1-8  more, according to the last preceding federal census, a holder of a
    1-9  retail dealer's on-premise late hours license may also sell, offer
   1-10  for sale, and deliver beer between midnight and 2 a.m. on any day.
   1-11        (d)  In a county having a population of less than 500,000
   1-12  <300,000>, according to the last preceding federal census, the
   1-13  extended hours prescribed in Subsection (c) of this section are
   1-14  effective for the sale, offer to sell, and delivery of beer by a
   1-15  holder of a retail dealer's on-premise late hours license:
   1-16              (1)  in the unincorporated areas of the county if the
   1-17  extended hours are adopted by an order of the commissioners court;
   1-18  and
   1-19              (2)  in an incorporated city or town if the extended
   1-20  hours are adopted by an ordinance of the governing body of the city
   1-21  or town.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  Section 105.06(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
   1-23  amended to read as follows:
   1-24        (a)  In this section:
    2-1              (1)  "Extended hours area" means an area<:>
    2-2                    <(A)  located in a county having a population of
    2-3  more than 300,000, according to the last preceding federal census;
    2-4  or>
    2-5                    <(B)  located in a county having a population of
    2-6  not more than 300,000, according to the last preceding federal
    2-7  census, if the area has been made> subject to the extended hours of
    2-8  sale provided in Section 105.03 or 105.05 of this code.
    2-9              (2)  "Standard hours area" means an area which is not
   2-10  an extended hours area.
   2-11        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-12        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.