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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