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      By Torres                                       H.B. No. 2552

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the timely filing of alcoholic beverage permits,

 1-3     storage of records, and the shipment of alcoholic beverages.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 11.32, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 11.32.  Renewal Application.  Renewal applications shall

 1-8     be made under oath and shall contain all information required by

 1-9     the commission or administrator showing that the applicant is

1-10     qualified to hold the permit.  The application shall be accompanied

1-11     by the required bond and state fee.  The commission or

1-12     administrator may issue a renewal permit if it is found that the

1-13     applicant is qualified.  The renewal of any permit is timely made

1-14     if not later than the date on which the application is due the

1-15     application is mailed to the commission in an envelope with the

1-16     proper address and postage and is received by the commission not

1-17     later than the 10th day after the date on which it was due.

1-18           SECTION 2.  Section 206.01(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is

1-19     amended to read as follows:

1-20           Sec. 206.01.  Records.  (A)  A permittee who distills,

1-21     rectifies, manufacturers, or receives any liquor shall make and

1-22     keep a record of each day's production or receipt of liquor and the

1-23     amount of tax stamps purchased by the permittee.  A permittee other

1-24     than a retailer shall make and keep a record of each sale of liquor

 2-1     and to whom the sale is made and such records may be stored

 2-2     electronically.  Each transaction shall be entered on the day it

 2-3     occurs.  Permittees shall make and keep any other records required

 2-4     by the commission.  All required records shall be kept available

 2-5     for inspection by the commission or its authorized representatives

 2-6     for at least four years.

 2-7           SECTION 3.  Section 107.07 (f), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is

 2-8     amended to read as follows:

 2-9           (f)  Any person in the business of selling alcoholic

2-10     beverages in another state or country who ships or causes to be

2-11     shipped any alcoholic beverage directly to any Texas resident under

2-12     this section is in violation of this code.  Nothing in this

2-13     subsection shall prevent a Texas resident from importing liquor for

2-14     his personal use under the provisions of subsection (a) of this

2-15     section.

2-16           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-22     passage, and it is so enacted.