73R7745 CAG-D By Jones of Lubbock H.B. No. 2088 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2088: By Jones of Lubbock C.S.H.B. No. 2088 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of a winery to give away promotional 1-3 bottles of wine. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 102, Alcoholic Beverage 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 102.19 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 102.19. PROMOTIONAL GIFT WINE. A holder of a winery 1-8 permit may give one or more unopened bottles of Texas-made wine 1-9 produced or bottled by the winery to a person 21 years of age or 1-10 older on the premises of a convention center or civic center that 1-11 holds a mixed beverage permit if no charge is made by the winery or 1-12 by the mixed beverage permittee for the wine. A recipient of a 1-13 bottle of wine under this section must take the unopened gift 1-14 bottle off the premises of the mixed beverage permittee. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.