1-1 By: Jones of Lubbock (Senate Sponsor - Montford) H.B. No. 2088
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1993;
1-3 May 12, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 22, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 22, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Harris of Dallas x
1-9 Rosson x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Leedom x
1-13 Lucio x
1-14 Luna x
1-15 Nelson x
1-16 Patterson x
1-17 Shelley x
1-18 Sibley x
1-19 West x
1-20 Whitmire x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the authority of a winery to give away promotional
1-24 bottles of wine.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 102, Alcoholic Beverage
1-27 Code, is amended by adding Section 102.19 to read as follows:
1-28 Sec. 102.19. PROMOTIONAL GIFT WINE. A holder of a winery
1-29 permit may give one or more unopened bottles of Texas-made wine
1-30 produced or bottled by the winery to a person 21 years of age or
1-31 older on the premises of a convention center or civic center that
1-32 holds a mixed beverage permit if no charge is made by the winery or
1-33 by the mixed beverage permittee for the wine. A recipient of a
1-34 bottle of wine under this section must take the unopened gift
1-35 bottle off the premises of the mixed beverage permittee.
1-36 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-41 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-42 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-43 * * * * *
1-44 Austin,
1-45 Texas
1-46 May 22, 1993
1-47 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-48 President of the Senate
1-49 Sir:
1-50 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B.
1-51 No. 2088, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-52 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-53 that it do pass and be printed.
1-54 Rosson,
1-55 Vice-Chairman
1-56 * * * * *
1-57 WITNESSES
1-58 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 2088.