By:  Carona                                           S.B. No. 1640
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to transportation of certain alcoholic beverages.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 42.01, Alcoholic Beverage
 1-4     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-5           (a)  The holder of a private carrier permit who is also a
 1-6     holder of a brewer's, distiller's and rectifier's, winery,
 1-7     wholesaler's, class B wholesaler's, or wine bottler's permit may
 1-8     transport liquor from the place of purchase to the holder's [his]
 1-9     place of business and from the place of sale or distribution to the
1-10     purchaser in a vehicle [vehicles] owned or leased in good faith by
1-11     the holder or in a vehicle owned or leased by the holder of a
1-12     permit issued under Chapter 35 if the transportation is for a
1-13     lawful purpose.
1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.