By Sims                                                S.B. No. 945
       74R6754 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to alcoholic beverage advertising in licensed premises of
    1-3  certain fraternal organizations.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 108, Alcoholic Beverage
    1-6  Code, is amended by adding Section 108.09 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 108.09.  ADVERTISING IN CERTAIN FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION
    1-8  FACILITIES.  A provision of this code or rule adopted by the
    1-9  commission relating to the making or financing of improvements in a
   1-10  licensed premises or the regulation of or limitations on
   1-11  advertising signage, advertising decorations, or decorating or
   1-12  painting for purposes of advertising in a licensed premises does
   1-13  not apply to a fraternal organization described by Section
   1-14  32.11(a)(1)(C).
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-21  passage, and it is so enacted.