By Armbrister                                         S.B. No. 1114
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to certain promotional activities for certain alcoholic
 1-3     beverage permit holders and licensees.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 108.04, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 108.04.  ACTS OF PROMOTIONAL OR COURTESY NATURE:
 1-8     ADMINISTRATIVE DISCRETION.  The commission may promulgate rules
 1-9     which shall set definite limitations consistent with the general
1-10     provisions of this code, relaxing the restrictions of Sections
1-11     102.07, 102.14, 102.15, and 108.06 [of this code], with respect to:
1-12                 (1)  the sale or gift of novelties advertising the
1-13     product of a manufacturer or distributor;
1-14                 (2)  the making of gifts to civic, religious, or
1-15     charitable organizations;
1-16                 (3)  the cleaning and maintenance of coil connections
1-17     for dispensing draught beer;
1-18                 (4)  the lending of equipment for special occasions;
1-19     and
1-20                 (5)  acts of a purely courtesy nature.
1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.