By Davila H.B. No. 2248 74R6290 DLF-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the sale of cigarettes. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 154, Tax Code, is amended 1-5 by adding Section 154.1016 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 154.1016. SALES; MINIMUM PACKAGE SIZE. A permit holder 1-7 may not sell or distribute cigarettes in a package that contains 1-8 fewer than 20 individual cigarettes. 1-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and 1-10 applies only to the sale or distribution of cigarettes on or after 1-11 January 1, 1996. The sale or distribution of cigarettes before 1-12 January 1, 1996, is governed by the law as it existed immediately 1-13 before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in 1-14 effect for that purpose. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.