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      By Alvarado                                     H.B. No. 2728

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the importation of liquor.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 107.07(f), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (f)  Any person in the business of selling alcoholic

 1-7     beverages in another state or country who ships or causes to be

 1-8     shipped any alcoholic beverage directly to any Texas resident under

 1-9     this section is in violation of this code.  Nothing in this

1-10     subsection shall prevent a Texas resident from importing liquor for

1-11     personal use under the provisions of subsection (a) of this

1-12     section.

1-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-19     passage, and it is so enacted.