By Armbrister                                          S.B. No. 451
         76R4246 CMR-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to sales of cigarettes or tobacco products in package
 1-3     stores.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 161.086(b), Health and Safety Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (b)  Subsection (a) does not apply to:
 1-8                 (1)  a facility or business that is not open to persons
 1-9     younger than 18 years of age at any time;  [or]
1-10                 (2)  that part of a facility or business that is a
1-11     humidor or other enclosure designed to store cigars in a
1-12     climate-controlled environment; or
1-13                 (3)  a premises for which a person holds a package
1-14     store permit issued under the Alcoholic Beverage Code.
1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-16           SECTION 3.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-17     only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
1-18     Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
1-19     the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
1-20     before that date.
1-21           (b)  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 4.  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.