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This Senate resolution suspends certain limitations on the conference committee's jurisdiction for Senate Bill 650, which relates to age verification in the retail sale of alcoholic beverages. Specifically, the resolution allows the conference committee to use Senate Rule 12.08 to modify Senate Rule 12.03, permitting them to omit text not in disagreement in Section 2 of the bill, specifically removing the phrase "(i) a package store permit" from the proposed Alcoholic Beverage Code amendment. The change is intended to require package store permit holders to visually inspect and electronically verify a purchaser's age when selling alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption. The resolution was adopted by the Texas Senate on June 1, 2025, with a unanimous vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays, indicating broad support for this technical modification to the bill's language.

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