By Jones of Lubbock H.B. No. 2088 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of a winery to give promotional bottles 1-3 of wine to unlicensed persons in a civic center or convention 1-4 center. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 102.19, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is 1-7 amended by adding a new Section 102.19 to read as follows: 1-8 Section 102.19. PROMOTIONAL GIFT WINE IN A CIVIC CENTER. 1-9 Nothing in this code shall prohibit the holder of a winery permit 1-10 from giving one or more bottles of Texas-made wine produced or 1-11 bottled by the winery to unlicensed persons of legal drinking age 1-12 on the premises of a convention center or civic center at which a 1-13 mixed beverage permit is held, provided that no charge of any sort 1-14 is made by the winery or by the mixed beverage permittee for such 1-15 gift. Under such circumstances, the recipient may take the 1-16 unopened gift bottle off the premises of the mixed beverage 1-17 permittee. 1-18 SECTION 2. EMERGENCY CLAUSE. The importance of this 1-19 legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both 1-20 houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that 1-21 the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its 2-1 terms, and it is so enacted.