By Alvarado                                      H.B. No. 599

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to creation of an offense involving presence of a minor on

 1-3     premises covered by certain alcoholic beverage permits or licenses.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 106, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended

 1-6     by adding Section 106.15 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 106.15.  PRESENCE OF MINOR ON LICENSED PREMISES.

 1-8     (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b):

 1-9                 (1)  a minor may not be on premises covered by a permit

1-10     or license issued under Chapter 25, 28, 29, 69, or 70; and

1-11                 (2)  the holder of a permit or license issued under

1-12     this code may not allow a minor to be on the premises covered by

1-13     the permit or license.

1-14           (b)  This section does not apply if:

1-15                 (1)  the minor at all times while on the premises is in

1-16     the presence of the minor's parent or adult spouse or an adult

1-17     person into whose custody a court has committed the minor;

1-18                 (2)  the business operated on the premises derives:

1-19                       (A)  65 percent or more of its gross revenues

1-20     from the sale of food and other goods, not including alcoholic

1-21     beverages; or

1-22                       (B)  50 percent or more of its gross revenues

1-23     from the sale of tickets to outdoor live performances; or

1-24                 (3)  the minor's presence is in the course of

 2-1     employment permitted under this code.

 2-2           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-3           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.