H.B. No. 1936
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to importation and shipment of alcoholic beverages for
  personal consumption.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 107.07(a) and (e), Alcoholic Beverage
  Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A person [Texas resident] may import not more than 24
  12-ounce bottles or an equivalent quantity of malt beverages, 3
  gallons of wine, and 1 gallon of distilled spirits [one quart of
  liquor] for the person's [his] own personal use without being
  required to hold a permit. [A Texas resident may import for his own
  personal use not more than three gallons of wine without being
  required to hold a permit. A nonresident of Texas may import not
  more than a gallon of liquor for his own personal use without being
  required to hold a permit.] A person importing alcoholic beverages
  [liquor] into the state under this subsection must pay the state tax
  on alcoholic beverages [liquor] and an administrative fee of $3 [50
  cents] and must affix the required tax stamps. No minor and no
  intoxicated person may import any alcoholic beverages [liquor] into
  the state. A person importing alcoholic beverages [wine or liquor]
  under this subsection must personally accompany the alcoholic
  beverages [wine or liquor] as the alcoholic beverages enter [it
  enters] the state. A person may not use [avail himself of] the
  exemptions set forth in this subsection more than once every thirty
  days.
         (e)  The administrative fees collected under this section
  shall be used by the commission for the administrative costs of
  enforcing the requirements of Subsection [Subsections] (a) [and (b)
  of this section].
         SECTION 2.  Section 107.11, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 107.11.  IMPORTATION OF PERSONAL [WINE] COLLECTION.  
  (a)  A person who is relocating a household may import, or contract
  with a motor carrier or another person to import, a personal malt
  beverage, wine, or distilled spirit collection as a part of that
  person's household goods.
         (b)  Section 107.07 [of this code] does not apply to a person
  who is importing a personal malt beverage, wine, or distilled
  spirit collection under Subsection (a) [of this section].
         SECTION 3.  Sections 107.07(b) and (c) and 107.12, Alcoholic
  Beverage Code, are repealed.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1936 was passed by the House on April
  26, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 146, Nays 2, 2 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1936 was passed by the Senate on May
  13, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 26, Nays 5
  .
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
  APPROVED:  _____________________
                     Date          
   
            _____________________
                   Governor