1-1     By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1114
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1999; March 11, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
 1-4     April 15, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 15, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to certain promotional activities for certain alcoholic
 1-9     beverage permit holders and licensees.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 108.04, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
1-12     amended to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 108.04.  ACTS OF PROMOTIONAL OR COURTESY NATURE:
1-14     ADMINISTRATIVE DISCRETION.  The commission may promulgate rules
1-15     which shall set definite limitations consistent with the general
1-16     provisions of this code, relaxing the restrictions of Sections
1-17     102.07, 102.14, 102.15, and 108.06 [of this code], with respect to:
1-18                 (1)  the sale or gift of novelties advertising the
1-19     product of a manufacturer or distributor;
1-20                 (2)  the making of gifts to civic, religious, or
1-21     charitable organizations;
1-22                 (3)  the cleaning and maintenance of coil connections
1-23     for dispensing draught beer;
1-24                 (4)  the lending of equipment for special occasions;
1-25     and
1-26                 (5)  acts of a purely courtesy nature.
1-27           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-28           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-29     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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