73R7252 CAG-F
By Jones of Lubbock H.B. No. 1600
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1600:
By Jones of Lubbock C.S.H.B. No. 1600
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the payment of the expenses for holding a local option
1-3 election on the sale of alcoholic beverages.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 251.40, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
1-6 amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (d) to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (d) of this section,
1-9 county <County> expense is limited to the holding of one election
1-10 in each of the political subdivisions in Subsection (a) of this
1-11 section in a one-year period where the intent of the election is to
1-12 legalize the sale of alcoholic beverages and<. County expense is
1-13 limited to the holding of> one election in each of the political
1-14 subdivisions in Subsection (a) of this section in a one-year period
1-15 where the intent of the election is to prohibit the sale of
1-16 alcoholic beverages.
1-17 (d) A county that has a municipality with a population of
1-18 185,000 or more in which the sale of mixed beverages by a permittee
1-19 is legal and the sale of alcoholic beverages for off-premises
1-20 consumption is not legal is not liable for the expense of an
1-21 election to legalize or prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages in
1-22 a political subdivision, however, unless the number of qualified
1-23 voters certified under Section 251.10 of this code as signing the
1-24 petition submitted to call that election equals or exceeds 33
2-1 percent of the number of registered voters in that political
2-2 subdivision according to the most recent official list of
2-3 registered voters. This subsection continues to apply to a county
2-4 subject to it regardless of the results of an election to legalize
2-5 or prohibit the sale of mixed beverages or of alcoholic beverages
2-6 for off-premises consumption.
2-7 SECTION 2. Section 251.41(b), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
2-8 amended to read as follows:
2-9 (b) The deposit must be in the form of a cashier's check in
2-10 the total amount of $1 <25 cents> per voter listed on the current
2-11 list of registered voters residing in the county, justice precinct,
2-12 or incorporated city or town where the election is to be held.
2-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-19 passage, and it is so enacted.