1-1 By: Carona S.B. No. 1640
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
1-4 March 25, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 4,
1-5 Nays 0; March 25, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to transportation of certain alcoholic beverages.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 42.01, Alcoholic Beverage
1-11 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-12 (a) The holder of a private carrier permit who is also a
1-13 holder of a brewer's, distiller's and rectifier's, winery,
1-14 wholesaler's, class B wholesaler's, or wine bottler's permit may
1-15 transport liquor from the place of purchase to the holder's [his]
1-16 place of business and from the place of sale or distribution to the
1-17 purchaser in a vehicle [vehicles] owned or leased in good faith by
1-18 the holder or in a vehicle owned or leased by the holder of a
1-19 permit issued under Chapter 35 if the transportation is for a
1-20 lawful purpose.
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
1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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