Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. Line and page numbers may not match official copy. 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.