1-1  By:  Hilbert (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth)             H.B. No. 2267
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 1995;
    1-3  May 17, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State
    1-4  Affairs; May 25, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the types of permit or license which may be held by a
    1-9  wine only package store permittee.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 24.05, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
   1-12  amended to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 24.05.  Prohibited Interests.  (a)  No person who holds
   1-14  a wine only package store permit or owns an interest in a wine only
   1-15  package store may have a direct or indirect interest in any of the
   1-16  following:
   1-17              (1)  a manufacturer's<, retail dealer's on-premise,> or
   1-18  general, branch, or local distributor's license;
   1-19              (2)  <a wine and beer retailer's or wine and beer
   1-20  retailer's off-premise permit; or>
   1-21              <(3)>  the business of any of the <permits or> licenses
   1-22  listed in Subdivision <Subdivisions> (1) <and (2)> of this
   1-23  subsection <section>.
   1-24        (b)  A person may hold both a wine only package store permit
   1-25  and a retail dealer's off-premise license.
   1-26        (c)  A person may not hold a wine and beer retailer's or wine
   1-27  and beer retailer's off-premise permit at the same location where
   1-28  the person holds a wine only package store permit.
   1-29        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-30  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-31  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-32  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-33  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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