By:  Moncrief                                           S.B. No. 27
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to cancellation of wine and beer retailer permits and
    1-2  retail dealer on-premise licenses.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Alcoholic Beverage
    1-5  Code, is amended by adding Section 61.721 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 61.721.  CANCELLATION OF PERMIT OR LICENSE IN CERTAIN
    1-7  MUNICIPALITIES.  The commission or administrator may cancel an
    1-8  original or a renewal wine and beer retailer's permit or retail
    1-9  dealer's on-premise license and may refuse to issue any new
   1-10  alcoholic beverage permit or license for the same premises for one
   1-11  year after the date of cancellation if:
   1-12              (1)  the premises for which the permit or license is
   1-13  issued are located in a county with a population of 575,000 or
   1-14  more;
   1-15              (2)  the chief of police of the city or the sheriff of
   1-16  the county in which the premises are located has submitted a sworn
   1-17  statement to the commission stating specific allegations that the
   1-18  place or manner in which the permittee or licensee conducts its
   1-19  business endangers the general welfare, health, peace, morals, or
   1-20  safety of the community and further stating that there is a
   1-21  reasonable likelihood that such conduct would continue at the same
   1-22  location under another licensee or permittee; and
   1-23              (3)  the commission or administrator finds, after
    2-1  notice and hearing within the county where the premises are
    2-2  located, that the place or manner in which the permittee or
    2-3  licensee conducts its business does in fact endanger the general
    2-4  welfare, health, peace, morals, or safety of the community and that
    2-5  there is a reasonable likelihood that such conduct would continue
    2-6  at the same location under another licensee or permittee.
    2-7        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-12  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-13  passage, and it is so enacted.