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.