By Goolsby H.B. No. 549 76R1833 AJA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages at drive-up 1-3 windows. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 109, Alcoholic Beverage 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 109.61 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 109.61. DRIVE-UP WINDOW SALES PROHIBITED. The holder 1-8 of a license or permit issued under this code may not sell 1-9 alcoholic beverages in a manner that allows a person to approach 1-10 the exterior of the licensed or permitted premises in a motor 1-11 vehicle and purchase any alcoholic beverage for off-premises 1-12 consumption without: 1-13 (1) exiting from the vehicle; or 1-14 (2) entering the interior of a building on the 1-15 licensed or permitted premises in a motor vehicle. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.