By:  Sibley                                            S.B. No. 427
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the penalty for certain interstate or foreign shipments
 1-2     of alcoholic beverages.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (f), Section 107.07, Alcoholic
 1-5     Beverage Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (f)  Any person in the business of selling alcoholic
 1-7     beverages in another state or country who ships or causes to be
 1-8     shipped any alcoholic beverage directly to any Texas resident under
 1-9     this section commits an offense [is in violation of this code].  An
1-10     offense under this subsection is a Class A misdemeanor unless it is
1-11     shown at the trial of the offense that the person committed the
1-12     offense after the person received written notice from the
1-13     commission that the person was violating this subsection, in which
1-14     event an offense under this subsection is a state jail felony.
1-15           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-16           (b)  The change in law made to Section 107.07, Alcoholic
1-17     Beverage Code, by this Act applies only to an offense committed on
1-18     or after the effective date of this Act.  For purposes of this
1-19     section, an offense is committed before the effective date of this
1-20     Act if any element of the offense occurs before the effective date.
1-21           (c)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
1-22     Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
1-23     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.