By:  Bernsen                                          S.B. No. 1676
         99S0632/1                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the ingredients used in the production of alcoholic
 1-2     beverages.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 101.65, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
 1-5     amended to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 101.65.  BEVERAGES MADE FROM CERTAIN MATERIALS
 1-7     PROHIBITED.  No person may manufacture, import, sell, or possess
 1-8     for the purpose of sale an alcoholic beverage made from:
 1-9                 (1)  [dried grapes, dried fruits, or dried berries;]
1-10                 [(2)]  any compound made from synthetic materials;
1-11                 (2) [(3)]  substandard wines;
1-12                 (3) [(4)]  imitation wines; or
1-13                 (4) [(5)]  must concentrated at any time to more than
1-14     80 degrees Balling.
1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.