1-1 By: Van de Putte (Senate Sponsor - Luna) H.B. No. 690 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1995; 1-3 May 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; May 25, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 25, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to notices required to be posted by certain applicants for 1-9 an on-premises alcoholic beverage permit or license. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 11.391, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is 1-12 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-13 (d) An applicant for a permit issued under Chapter 25, 28, 1-14 or 32 shall comply with this section not later than the 10th day 1-15 before the date the applicant submits the application for a permit 1-16 if: 1-17 (1) the applicant's permit was canceled or suspended 1-18 during the 13-month period preceding the date of the application; 1-19 or 1-20 (2) the premises described in the application was, in 1-21 the five-year period preceding the date of the application, the 1-22 premises of another holder of an alcoholic beverage permit or 1-23 license that had been suspended or canceled. 1-24 SECTION 2. Section 61.381, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is 1-25 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-26 (d) An applicant for a license issued under Chapter 69 or 74 1-27 shall comply with this section not later than the 10th day before 1-28 the date the applicant submits the application for a license if: 1-29 (1) the applicant's license was canceled or suspended 1-30 during the 13-month period preceding the date of the application; 1-31 or 1-32 (2) the premises described in the application was, in 1-33 the five-year period preceding the date of the application, the 1-34 premises of another holder of an alcoholic beverage permit or 1-35 license that had been suspended or canceled. 1-36 SECTION 3. An applicant for the renewal of an alcoholic 1-37 beverage permit or license issued under Chapter 25, 28, 32, 69, or 1-38 74, Alcoholic Beverage Code, who submits the application on or 1-39 before September 1, 1996, must comply with the law as changed by 1-40 this Act in the same manner in which an applicant for an initial 1-41 permit or license must comply. This section expires September 2, 1-42 1996. 1-43 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and 1-44 applies only to an application for an alcoholic beverage permit or 1-45 license or renewal of an alcoholic beverage permit or license 1-46 submitted on or after the effective date of this Act. An 1-47 application for an alcoholic beverage permit or license or renewal 1-48 submitted before September 1, 1995, is governed by the law as it 1-49 existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that 1-50 law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-51 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the 1-52 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-53 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-54 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-55 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-56 * * * * *