By Wilson                                       H.B. No. 1840

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the abolishment of the alcoholic beverage market

 1-3     research packager's permit.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 49, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is repealed.

 1-6           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 1-7           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 1-8     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 1-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.