By:  Patterson                                         S.B. No. 800
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to creation of an offense involving presence of a minor on
    1-2  premises covered by an alcoholic beverage permit or license.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 106, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended
    1-5  by adding Section 106.15 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 106.15.  PRESENCE OF MINOR ON LICENSED PREMISES.
    1-7  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this section:
    1-8              (1)  a minor may not be on premises covered by a permit
    1-9  or license issued under Chapters 25, 28, 32 and 69 of this code;
   1-10  and
   1-11              (2)  the holder of a permit or license issued under
   1-12  Chapters 25, 28, 32, and 69 of this code may not allow a minor to
   1-13  be on the premises covered by the permit or license.
   1-14        (b)  This section does not apply if:
   1-15              (1)  the minor at all times while on the premises is in
   1-16  the presence of the minor's parent or adult spouse or an adult
   1-17  person into whose custody a court has committed the minor;
   1-18              (2)  the business operated on the premises derives:
   1-19                    (A)  70 percent or more of its gross revenues
   1-20  from the sale of food, gasoline, and other goods, not including
   1-21  alcoholic beverages or tickets to live performances; or
   1-22                    (B)  80 percent or more of its gross revenues
   1-23  from the sale of tickets to live performances; or
    2-1              (3)  the minor's presence is in the course of
    2-2  employment permitted under this code.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.