By Kubiak H.B. No. 3439
75R7208 LJR-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to an offense for selling alcoholic beverages to certain
1-3 persons.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 101.63(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) A person commits an offense if the person with criminal
1-8 negligence [he knowingly] sells an alcoholic beverage to an
1-9 habitual drunkard or an intoxicated or insane person.
1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.