1-1 By: Wentworth S.B. No. 258
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 18, 1995; January 19, 1995,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 January 30, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas
1-5 13, Nays 0; January 30, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to institutions of higher education that may offer
1-9 alcoholic beverage seller training programs.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 106.14, Alcoholic
1-12 Beverage Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) The commission shall adopt rules or policies
1-14 establishing the minimum requirements for approved seller training
1-15 programs. Upon application, the commission shall approve seller
1-16 training programs meeting such requirements that are sponsored
1-17 either privately, <or> by public community colleges, or by public
1-18 or private institutions of higher education that offer a four-year
1-19 undergraduate program and a degree or certificate in hotel or motel
1-20 management, restaurant management, or travel or tourism management.
1-21 The commission may charge an application fee to be set by the
1-22 commission in such amount as is necessary to defray the expense of
1-23 processing the application.
1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-25 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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