By Hilbert                                            H.B. No. 2267
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the types of permit or license which may be held by a
    1-3  wine only package store permittee.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 24.05, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 24.05.  Prohibited Interests.  (a)  No person who holds
    1-8  a wine only package store permit or owns an interest in a wine only
    1-9  package store may have a direct or indirect interest in any of the
   1-10  following:
   1-11              (1)  a manufacturer's, retail dealer's on-premise, or
   1-12  general, branch, or local distributor's license;
   1-13              (2)  <a wine and beer retailer's or wine and beer
   1-14  retailer's off-premise permit; or>
   1-15              <(3)>  the business of any of the <permits or> licenses
   1-16  listed in Subdivision <Subdivisions> (1) <and (2)> of this
   1-17  subsection <section>.
   1-18        (b)  A person may hold both a wine only package store permit
   1-19  and a retail dealer's off-premise license.
   1-20        (c)  A person may not hold a wine and beer retailer's or wine
   1-21  and beer retailer's off-premise permit at the same location where
   1-22  the person holds a wine only package store permit.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
    2-5                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
    2-6        Amend H.B. 2267 as follows:
    2-7        On page 1, line 11, strike the words "retail dealer's
    2-8  on-premise".
    2-9                                                               Torres