By: Nelson  S.B. No. 438
         (In the Senate - Filed January 28, 2011; February 2, 2011,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce;
  March 23, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 23, 2011,
  sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 438 By:  Watson
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the number of days a winery may sell wine under a winery
  festival permit.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 17.01, Alcoholic
  Beverage Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (b)  The holder of a winery festival permit may not offer
  wine for sale under this chapter[:
               [(1)     for more than five days within any 30-day period;
  or
               [(2)]  on more than four [three consecutive] days at
  the same location.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
 
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