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.