By:  Madla                                             S.B. No. 619
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to requiring video surveillance equipment at certain
    1-2  retail establishments selling alcoholic beverages.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 104, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended
    1-5  by adding Section 104.05 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 104.05.  SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT.  (a)  A person who is
    1-7  authorized to sell beer or wine at retail and whose retail
    1-8  establishment is open for business 24 hours a day one or more days
    1-9  a week must install video surveillance equipment at the retail
   1-10  establishment and operate the equipment on a continuous basis.
   1-11        (b)  The person must present evidence of compliance with this
   1-12  section to the satisfaction of the commission before a permit or
   1-13  license may be issued or renewed under this code.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
   1-15  to a permit or license that is issued or renewed after the
   1-16  effective date of this Act.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect June 1, 1994.
   1-18        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.