1-1     By:  Yarbrough (Senate Sponsor - Carona)              H.B. No. 2856
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1999;
 1-3     May 3, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Economic
 1-4     Development; May 13, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the quantity of alcoholic beverages which may be sold
 1-9     by package store and wine only package store permittees in a single
1-10     transaction.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Sections 22.09 and 24.08, Alcoholic Beverage
1-13     Code, are repealed.
1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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