By Goolsby H.B. No. 743 75R1808 PAM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the offense of arranging, conducting, or participating 1-3 in certain drinking games. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 101, Alcoholic Beverage 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 101.76 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 101.76. CERTAIN DRINKING GAMES PROHIBITED. (a) A 1-8 person commits an offense if the person arranges, conducts, or 1-9 participates in a game if: 1-10 (1) the game includes the consumption of an alcoholic 1-11 beverage as an element of the game; and 1-12 (2) the primary purpose of the game is the 1-13 intoxication of the participants. 1-14 (b) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. The 1-16 change in law made by this Act applies only to an offense committed 1-17 on or after the effective date of this Act. For purposes of this 1-18 section, an offense is committed before the effective date of this 1-19 Act if any element of the offense occurs before that date. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.