1-1     By:  Armbrister                                        S.B. No. 451
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 9, 1999; February 15, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Human Services;
 1-4     March 17, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 5,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 17, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to sales of cigarettes or tobacco products in package
 1-9     stores.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 161.086, Health and
1-12     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (b)  Subsection (a) does not apply to:
1-14                 (1)  a facility or business that is not open to persons
1-15     younger than 18 years of age at any time; [or]
1-16                 (2)  that part of a facility or business that is a
1-17     humidor or other enclosure designed to store cigars in a
1-18     climate-controlled environment; or
1-19                 (3)  a premises for which a person holds a package
1-20     store permit issued under the Alcoholic Beverage Code.
1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 3.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-23     only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
1-24     Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
1-25     the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
1-26     before that date.
1-27           (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
1-28     Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
1-29     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-30           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-31     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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