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.