1-1     By:  Sibley                                            S.B. No. 427
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 8, 1999; February 9, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
 1-4     March 1, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
 1-5     Nays 1; March 1, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the penalty for certain interstate or foreign shipments
 1-9     of alcoholic beverages.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (f), Section 107.07, Alcoholic
1-12     Beverage Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (f)  Any person in the business of selling alcoholic
1-14     beverages in another state or country who ships or causes to be
1-15     shipped any alcoholic beverage directly to any Texas resident under
1-16     this section commits an offense [is in violation of this code].  An
1-17     offense under this subsection is a Class A misdemeanor unless it is
1-18     shown at the trial of the offense that the person committed the
1-19     offense after the person received written notice from the
1-20     commission that the person was violating this subsection, in which
1-21     event an offense under this subsection is a state jail felony.
1-22           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23           (b)  The change in law made to Section 107.07, Alcoholic
1-24     Beverage Code, by this Act applies only to an offense committed on
1-25     or after the effective date of this Act.  For purposes of this
1-26     section, an offense is committed before the effective date of this
1-27     Act if any element of the offense occurs before the effective date.
1-28           (c)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
1-29     Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
1-30     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-31           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-32     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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