By Kubiak H.B. No. 2321 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the invoicing, delivery, and packaging of alcoholic 1-3 beverages. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 107, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Section 107.09 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 107.09. SINGLE INVOICE AUTHORIZED. If the holder of a 1-8 distributor's license also holds any class of wholesaler's permit, 1-9 the written statement or invoice required to evidence the sale of 1-10 beer or liquor may be on the same business form designed to reflect 1-11 the sale of both liquor and beer, provided that all information 1-12 required by this code to be shown on an invoice is reflected 1-13 thereon and records are otherwise maintained as required by this 1-14 code. 1-15 SECTION 2. Section 105.02, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is 1-16 amended to read as follows: 1-17 Sec. 105.02. Hours of Sale: Wholesalers and Local 1-18 Distributors to Retailers. (a) Except as provided by Subsection 1-19 (b) of this section, a wholesaler or a local distributor's 1-20 permittee may sell, offer for sale, or deliver liquor to a retailer 1-21 between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. on any day except Sunday and Christmas 1-22 day. 1-23 (b) A local distributor's permittee may not sell, offer for 2-1 sale, or deliver any liquor on a day on which a package store 2-2 permittee is prohibited from selling liquor. 2-3 (c) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) of this code, a 2-4 wholesaler may deliver liquor with a prior order to a retailer at 2-5 any convenient time. 2-6 SECTION 3. Subchapter A, Chapter 61, Alcoholic Beverage 2-7 Code, is amended by adding Section 61.13 to read as follows: 2-8 Sec. 61.13. SALE OF BROKEN PACKAGES. A licensee who 2-9 receives an unbroken original package from a manufacturer or 2-10 distributor may not sell any part of the package in a form other 2-11 than: 2-12 (1) the form of the original package; or 2-13 (2) a single container. 2-14 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-20 passage, and it is so enacted.