1-1 By: Harris of Tarrant, Harris of Dallas S.B. No. 753
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1993; March 10, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 March 17, 1993, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 17, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Harris of Dallas x
1-9 Rosson x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Leedom x
1-13 Lucio x
1-14 Luna x
1-15 Nelson x
1-16 Patterson x
1-17 Shelley x
1-18 Sibley x
1-19 West x
1-20 Whitmire x
1-21 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Harris of Dallas
1-22 Amend S.B. No. 753 as follows:
1-23 On page 1, line 36, after the word "that", add the following:
1-24 (1) receives a petition requesting a local option
1-25 election to determine whether or not the legal sale of beer and
1-26 wine for off-premise consumption shall be legalized or prohibited;
1-27 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-28 AN ACT
1-29 relating to a local option election for the sale of alcoholic
1-30 beverages in a city or town located in certain counties.
1-31 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-32 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 251, Alcoholic Beverage
1-33 Code, is amended by adding Section 251.011 to read as follows:
1-34 Sec. 251.011. ELECTION IN CERTAIN CITIES AND TOWNS.
1-35 (a) This section applies only to an incorporated city or town
1-36 that:
1-37 (1) is located in three or more counties, at least one
1-38 of which has a population of 500,000 or more; and
1-39 (2) has within its boundaries all or part of an
1-40 international airport.
1-41 (b) Any election conducted under this chapter in a city or
1-42 town to which this section applies shall be conducted by the city
1-43 or town instead of the county. For the purposes of this section,
1-44 in Subchapters A, B, and C of this chapter:
1-45 (1) a reference to the county is considered to refer
1-46 to the city or town;
1-47 (2) a reference to the commissioners court is
1-48 considered to refer to the governing body of the city or town;
1-49 (3) a reference to the county clerk or registrar of
1-50 voters is considered to refer to the secretary of the city or town
1-51 or, if the city or town does not have a secretary, to the person
1-52 performing the functions of a secretary of the city or town; and
1-53 (4) a reference to the county judge is considered to
1-54 refer to the mayor of the city or town or, if the city or town does
1-55 not have a mayor, to the presiding officer of the governing body of
1-56 the city or town.
1-57 (c) The city or town shall pay the expense of the election.
1-58 (d) An action to contest the election under Section 251.55
1-59 of this chapter may be brought in the district court of any county
1-60 in which the city or town is located.
1-61 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-62 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-63 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-64 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-65 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-66 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-67 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-68 * * * * *
2-1 Austin,
2-2 Texas
2-3 March 17, 1993
2-4 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-5 President of the Senate
2-6 Sir:
2-7 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred S.B. No.
2-8 753, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-9 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-10 pass, as amended, and be printed.
2-11 Harris of
2-12 Dallas, Chairman
2-13 * * * * *
2-14 WITNESSES
2-15 No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 753.