AN ACT
 1-1     relating to sales of cigarettes or tobacco products in package
 1-2     stores.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 161.086, Health and
 1-5     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (b)  Subsection (a) does not apply to:
 1-7                 (1)  a facility or business that is not open to persons
 1-8     younger than 18 years of age at any time; [or]
 1-9                 (2)  that part of a facility or business that is a
1-10     humidor or other enclosure designed to store cigars in a
1-11     climate-controlled environment; or
1-12                 (3)  a premises for which a person holds a package
1-13     store permit issued under the Alcoholic Beverage Code.
1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-15           SECTION 3.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-16     only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
1-17     Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
1-18     the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
1-19     before that date.
1-20           (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
1-21     Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
1-22     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-23           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 451 passed the Senate on
         March 30, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 1.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 451 passed the House on
         May 22, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor