S.B. No. 258
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to institutions of higher education that may offer
    1-2  alcoholic beverage seller training programs.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 106.14, Alcoholic
    1-5  Beverage Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  The commission shall adopt rules or policies
    1-7  establishing the minimum requirements for approved seller training
    1-8  programs.  Upon application, the commission shall approve seller
    1-9  training programs meeting such requirements that are sponsored
   1-10  either privately, <or> by public community colleges, or by public
   1-11  or private institutions of higher education that offer a four-year
   1-12  undergraduate program and a degree or certificate in hotel or motel
   1-13  management, restaurant management, or travel or tourism management.
   1-14  The commission may charge an application fee to be set by the
   1-15  commission in such amount as is necessary to defray the expense of
   1-16  processing the application.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.