By: Jones, D. H.B. No. 1600
73R6059 LJR-F
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(b), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) County expense is limited to the holding of one election
1-8 in each of the political subdivisions in Subsection (a) of this
1-9 section in a one-year period where the intent of the election is to
1-10 legalize the sale of alcoholic beverages and<. County expense is
1-11 limited to the holding of> one election in each of the political
1-12 subdivisions in Subsection (a) of this section in a one-year period
1-13 where the intent of the election is to prohibit the sale of
1-14 alcoholic beverages. The county is not liable for the expense of
1-15 an election to legalize or prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages
1-16 in a political subdivision, however, unless the number of qualified
1-17 voters certified under Section 251.10 of this code as signing the
1-18 petition submitted to call that election equals or exceeds 33
1-19 percent of the number of registered voters in that political
1-20 subdivision according to the most recent official list of
1-21 registered voters.
1-22 SECTION 2. Section 251.41(b), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
1-23 amended to read as follows:
1-24 (b) The deposit must be in the form of a cashier's check in
2-1 the total amount of $1 <25 cents> per voter listed on the current
2-2 list of registered voters residing in the county, justice precinct,
2-3 or incorporated city or town where the election is to be held.
2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.