By Davila H.B. No. 2249
74R6288 KLL-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the delivery of free cigarettes or other tobacco
1-3 products in a public place; providing a criminal penalty.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 161, Health and Safety
1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 161.083 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 161.083. DELIVERY OF FREE CIGARETTES OR OTHER TOBACCO
1-8 PRODUCTS. (a) A person in the business of selling or promoting
1-9 cigarettes or other tobacco products, or an agent or employee of
1-10 that person, may not deliver or offer to deliver to another person
1-11 free cigarettes or other tobacco products in any of their forms in
1-12 a public place.
1-13 (b) A person commits an offense if the person violates this
1-14 section. An offense under this subsection is a Class C
1-15 misdemeanor.
1-16 SECTION 2. The heading to Subchapter H, Chapter 161, Health
1-17 and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-18 SUBCHAPTER H. <SALE OF> CIGARETTES OR
1-19 TOBACCO PRODUCTS <TO MINORS>
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.