S.B. No. 398
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to certain temporary wine and beer and mixed beverage
    1-2  permits for certain nonprofit organizations.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 27.04, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 27.04.  Required Basic Permit.  A temporary wine and
    1-7  beer retailer's permit may be issued only to a holder of a wine and
    1-8  beer retailer's permit, a holder of a <or> mixed beverage permit,
    1-9  or a nonprofit historic preservation organization that has been in
   1-10  existence for at least 30 years.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  Subsection (a), Section 30.03, Alcoholic Beverage
   1-12  Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (a)  The commission may, in its discretion, issue on a
   1-14  temporary basis a daily temporary mixed beverage permit.  A daily
   1-15  temporary mixed beverage permit may be issued only to a holder of a
   1-16  mixed beverage permit for the temporary sale of authorized
   1-17  alcoholic beverages at picnics, celebrations, or similar events, or
   1-18  to a political party or political association supporting a
   1-19  candidate for public office or a proposed amendment to the Texas
   1-20  Constitution or other ballot measure, to an organization formed for
   1-21  a specific charitable or civic purpose, to a fraternal organization
   1-22  in existence for over five years with a regular membership, or to a
   1-23  religious organization.  The commission shall not issue more than
    2-1  10 <two> temporary mixed beverage permits in each calendar year to
    2-2  a person who does not also hold a mixed beverage permit.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-8  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-9  passage, and it is so enacted.