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.
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