By: Moffat H.B. No. 465 73R1738 DWS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a local option election for the sale of alcoholic 1-3 beverages in a city or town located in certain counties. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 251, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Section 251.011 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 251.011. ELECTION IN CERTAIN CITIES AND TOWNS. (a) 1-8 This section applies only to an incorporated city or town that: 1-9 (1) is located in three or more counties, at least one 1-10 of which has a population of 500,000 or more; and 1-11 (2) has within its boundaries all or part of an 1-12 international airport. 1-13 (b) Any election conducted under this chapter in a city or 1-14 town to which this section applies shall be conducted by the city 1-15 or town instead of the county. For the purposes of this section, 1-16 in Subchapters A, B, and C of this chapter: 1-17 (1) a reference to the county is considered to refer 1-18 to the city or town; 1-19 (2) a reference to the commissioners court is 1-20 considered to refer to the governing body of the city or town; 1-21 (3) a reference to the county clerk or registrar of 1-22 voters is considered to refer to the secretary of the city or town 1-23 or, if the city or town does not have a secretary, to the person 1-24 performing the functions of a secretary of the city or town; and 2-1 (4) a reference to the county judge is considered to 2-2 refer to the mayor of the city or town or, if the city or town does 2-3 not have a mayor, to the presiding officer of the governing body of 2-4 the city or town. 2-5 (c) The city or town shall pay the expense of the election. 2-6 (d) An action to contest the election under Section 251.55 2-7 of this chapter may be brought in the district court of any county 2-8 in which the city or town is located. 2-9 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-15 passage, and it is so enacted.