By Yarbrough                                          H.B. No. 2856
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 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, Texas Alcoholic
 1-7     Beverage Code, are repealed.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.