By Kubiak H.B. No. 3441
75R7195 BEM-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the offense of purchase or possession of alcohol by a
1-3 minor.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 106.02(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) A minor commits an offense if the minor [he] purchases
1-8 an alcoholic beverage. A minor does not commit an offense if the
1-9 minor purchases an alcoholic beverage under the immediate
1-10 supervision of a commissioned peace officer engaged in enforcing
1-11 the provisions of this code.
1-12 SECTION 2. Section 106.05(b), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
1-13 amended to read as follows:
1-14 (b) A minor may possess an alcoholic beverage:
1-15 (1) while in the course and scope of the minor's [his]
1-16 employment if the minor [he] is an employee of a licensee or
1-17 permittee and the employment is not prohibited by this code; [or]
1-18 (2) if the minor [he] is in the presence of an adult
1-19 parent, guardian, or spouse, or other adult to whom the minor [he]
1-20 has been committed by a court; or
1-21 (3) if the minor is under the immediate supervision of
1-22 a commissioned peace officer engaged in enforcing the provisions of
1-23 this code.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.