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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