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.