1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the quantity of alcoholic beverages which may be sold 1-3 by package store and wine only package store permittees in a single 1-4 transaction. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Sections 22.09 and 24.08, Alcoholic Beverage 1-7 Code, are repealed. 1-8 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-9 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2856 was passed by the House on April 30, 1999, by a non-record vote. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2856 was passed by the Senate on May 26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor