S.B. No. 414
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the restricted sale of wine for off-premises
    1-2  consumption by the holder of a winery permit in certain dry areas.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 16.05, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 16.05.  Location of Premises.  (a)  A winery permit may
    1-7  be issued for licensed premises in a dry area, but, except as
    1-8  provided by Subsection (b), the permittee may not sell wine in a
    1-9  dry area.
   1-10        (b)  If the premises are in a dry area, the permittee may
   1-11  sell wine in this state to:
   1-12              (1)  permit holders authorized to sell wine to the
   1-13  ultimate consumer in unbroken packages for off-premises consumption
   1-14  in an amount not to exceed 25,000 gallons annually;
   1-15              (2)  <and to> holders of wholesaler's permits, winery
   1-16  permits, and wine bottler's permits; and
   1-17              (3)  ultimate consumers for consumption off winery
   1-18  premises for seven consecutive days each year if:
   1-19                    (A)  the winery is located in:
   1-20                          (i)  a dry area; and
   1-21                          (ii)  a county with a population of 15,000
   1-22  or less in which a majority of the area of the county is a dry area
   1-23  and in which one municipality is in a wet area;
   1-24                    (B)  the grapes used in manufacturing the wine
    2-1  are grown and harvested in the dry area;
    2-2                    (C)  the wine is manufactured, bottled, and sold
    2-3  on the winery premises; and
    2-4                    (D)  the holder of the permit, not later than the
    2-5  14th day before the date of the start of the seven-day period,
    2-6  notifies the commission of the winery's intention to sell wine
    2-7  under the authority of this subsection.
    2-8        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-13  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-14  passage, and it is so enacted.