By Denny                                               H.B. No. 412
         76R1195 AJA-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to authorized activities of a winery permit holder in
 1-3     certain counties.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 16.01(d), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (d)  The holder of a winery permit may sell wine to ultimate
 1-8     consumers for consumption on or off winery premises and dispense
 1-9     free wine for consumption on or off the winery premises if the
1-10     winery is located:
1-11                 (1)  in a city that:
1-12                       (A) [(1)]  is located in three or more counties,
1-13     at least one of which has a population of 500,000 or more; and
1-14                       (B) [(2)]  has within its boundaries all or part
1-15     of an international airport; or
1-16                 (2)  in a county that:
1-17                       (A)  has a population of 270,000 or more; and
1-18                       (B)  is adjacent to two or more counties with a
1-19     population of one million or more.
1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.