By Pickett                                      H.B. No. 2862

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the fee for an alcoholic beverage manufacturer's

 1-3     license.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 62.02, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 62.02.  FEE.  The fee for a manufacturer's license is

 1-8     [(a) Each person who establishes, operates, or maintains one or

 1-9     more licensed manufacturing establishments in this state under the

1-10     same general management or ownership shall pay an annual state fee

1-11     as follows:]

1-12                 [(1)  the fee for the first establishment is] $750[;]

1-13                 [(2)  the fee for the second establishment is $1,500;]

1-14                 [(3)  the fee for the third, fourth, and fifth

1-15     establishments is $4,275 for each establishment; and]

1-16                 [(4)  the fee for each establishment in excess of five

1-17     is $8,400.]

1-18           [(b)  For the purposes of this section, two or more

1-19     establishments are under the same general management or ownership

1-20     if:]

1-21                 [(1)  they bottle the same brand of beer or beer brewed

1-22     by the same manufacturer; or]

1-23                 [(2)  the persons (regardless of domicile) who

1-24     establish, operate, or maintain the establishments are controlled

 2-1     or directed by one management or by an association of ultimate

 2-2     management].

 2-3           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-4           (b)  The fee established by Section 62.02, Alcoholic Beverage

 2-5     Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to a license issued or

 2-6     renewed after the effective date of this Act.

 2-7           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-8     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-9     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-10     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-11     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.