By Corte                                               H.B. No. 263
         76R1643 AJA-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to punishment for the sale of an alcoholic beverage to a
 1-3     minor.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 106.03, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
 1-7           (d)  If a person has been previously convicted of a violation
 1-8     of this section or Section 101.63, a violation is a state jail
 1-9     felony.
1-10           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-11     The change in law made by this Act applies only to an offense
1-12     committed on or after the effective date of this Act.  For purposes
1-13     of this section, an offense is committed before the effective date
1-14     of this Act if any element of the offense occurs before that date.
1-15           (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
1-16     Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
1-17     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-18           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.