S.B. No. 27 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 chief of police of the city or the sheriff of 1-13 the county in which the premises are located has submitted a sworn 1-14 statement to the commission stating specific allegations that the 1-15 place or manner in which the permittee or licensee conducts its 1-16 business endangers the general welfare, health, peace, morals, or 1-17 safety of the community and further stating that there is a 1-18 reasonable likelihood that such conduct would continue at the same 1-19 location under another licensee or permittee; and 1-20 (2) the commission or administrator finds, after 1-21 notice and hearing within the county where the premises are 1-22 located, that the place or manner in which the permittee or 1-23 licensee conducts its business does in fact endanger the general 2-1 welfare, health, peace, morals, or safety of the community and that 2-2 there is a reasonable likelihood that such conduct would continue 2-3 at the same location under another licensee or permittee. 2-4 SECTION 2. 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.