By Pickett H.B. No. 2862
75R7200 BEM-F
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.