1-1  By:  Brimer (Senate Sponsor - Rosson)                 H.B. No. 1763
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1995;
    1-3  May 9, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State
    1-4  Affairs; May 12, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 12, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to allowing the holder of a brewpub license to participate
    1-9  in an organized competition, review, or judging.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 74.01, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
   1-12  amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
   1-13        (g)  The holder of a brewpub license may deliver malt liquor,
   1-14  ale, or beer manufactured by the holder to a location other than
   1-15  the holder's premises for the purpose of submitting the malt
   1-16  liquor, ale, or beer for an evaluation at an organized malt liquor,
   1-17  ale, or beer tasting, competition, or review.  At a tasting,
   1-18  competition, or review, a holder of a brewpub license may:
   1-19              (1)  dispense without charge malt liquor, ale, or beer
   1-20  manufactured by the holder to a person attending the event for
   1-21  consumption on the premises of the event; and
   1-22              (2)  discuss with a person attending the event the
   1-23  manufacturing and characteristics of the malt liquor, ale, or beer.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-25  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-26  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-27  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-28  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-29  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-30  passage, and it is so enacted.
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