By Van de Putte                                       H.B. No. 1093
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to certain temporary wine and beer, and mixed beverage
    1-3  permits for certain nonprofit organizations.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 27.04, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 27.04.  Required For Permit.  A temporary wine and beer
    1-8  retailer's permit may be issued only to a holder of a wine and beer
    1-9  retailer's permit, a holder of a <or> mixed beverage permit, or a
   1-10  nonprofit historic preservation organization that has been in
   1-11  existence for at least 30 years.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  Subsection (a), Section 30.03, Alcoholic Beverage
   1-13  Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 30.03.  Issuance of Permit.  (a)  The commission may, in
   1-15  its discretion, issue on a temporary basis a daily temporary mixed
   1-16  beverage permit.  A daily temporary mixed beverage permit may be
   1-17  issued only to a holder of a mixed beverage permit for the
   1-18  temporary sale of authorized alcoholic beverages at picnics,
   1-19  celebrations, or similar events, or to a political party or
   1-20  political association supporting a candidate for public office or a
   1-21  proposed amendment to the Texas Constitution or other ballot
   1-22  measure, to an organization formed for a specific charitable or
   1-23  civic purpose, to a fraternal organization in existence for over
    2-1  five years with a regular membership, or to a religious
    2-2  organization.  The commission shall not issue more than ten <two>
    2-3  temporary mixed beverage permits in each calendar year to a person
    2-4  who does not also hold a mixed beverage permit.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both housed create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-10  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-11  passage, and it is so enacted.