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 a new 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.  Chapter 105, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended
   1-16  by adding a new subsection (c) to read as follows:
   1-17        Sec. 105.02.  Hours of Sale:  Wholesalers and Local
   1-18  Distributors to Retailers.
   1-19        (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, a
   1-20  wholesaler or a local distributor's permittee may sell, offer for
   1-21  sale, or deliver liquor to a retailer between 7 a m. and 9 p.m. on
   1-22  any day except Sunday and Christmas Day.
   1-23        (b)  A local distributor's permittee may not sell, offer for
    2-1  sale, or deliver any liquor on any day on which a package store
    2-2  permittee is prohibited from selling liquor.
    2-3        (c)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a wholesaler may deliver
    2-4  liquor with a prior order to a retailer at any convenient time.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  Subchapter A, Chapter 61, Alcoholic Beverage
    2-6  Code, is amended by adding Section 61.13 to read as follows:
    2-7        Sec. 61.13.  SALE OF BROKEN PACKAGES.  A licensee who
    2-8  receives an unbroken original package from a manufacturer or
    2-9  distributor may not sell any part of the package in a form other
   2-10  than:
   2-11              (1)  the form of the original package; or
   2-12              (2)  a single container.
   2-13        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-19  passage, and it is so enacted.