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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to importation and shipment of alcoholic beverages for |
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personal consumption. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Sections 107.07(a) and (e), Alcoholic Beverage |
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Code, are amended to read as follows: |
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(a) A person [Texas resident] may import not more than 24 |
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12-ounce bottles or an equivalent quantity of malt beverages, 3 |
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gallons of wine, and 1 gallon of distilled spirits [one quart of
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liquor] for the person's [his] own personal use without being |
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required to hold a permit. [A Texas resident may import for his own
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personal use not more than three gallons of wine without being
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required to hold a permit. A nonresident of Texas may import not
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more than a gallon of liquor for his own personal use without being
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required to hold a permit.] A person importing alcoholic beverages |
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[liquor] into the state under this subsection must pay the state tax |
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on alcoholic beverages [liquor] and an administrative fee of $1 [50
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cents] and must affix the required tax stamps. No minor and no |
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intoxicated person may import any alcoholic beverages [liquor] into |
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the state. A person importing alcoholic beverages [wine or liquor] |
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under this subsection must personally accompany the alcoholic |
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beverages [wine or liquor] as the alcoholic beverages enter [it
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enters] the state. A person may not use [avail himself of] the |
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exemptions set forth in this subsection more than once every thirty |
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days. |
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(e) The administrative fees collected under this section |
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shall be used by the commission for the administrative costs of |
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enforcing the requirements of Subsection [Subsections] (a) [and (b)
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of this section]. |
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SECTION 2. Sections 107.07(b) and (c), Alcoholic Beverage |
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Code, are repealed. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |