1-1 By: Siebert (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth) H.B. No. 2355 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1995; 1-3 April 24, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; May 2, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 2, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the shipment of alcoholic beverages. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Section 107.07, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is 1-11 amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-12 (f) Any person in the business of selling alcoholic 1-13 beverages in another state or country who ships or causes to be 1-14 shipped any alcoholic beverage directly to any Texas resident under 1-15 this section is in violation of this code. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-23 * * * * *