By Yarbrough                                           H.B. No. 984
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the filing of a conduct surety bond by certain
    1-3  alcoholic beverage permit or license holders.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 11.11(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  Except as provided in Subsection (e) of this section, an
    1-8  applicant for a permit or a holder of a permit issued under Chapter
    1-9  25, 28, or 32 of this code shall file with the commission a surety
   1-10  bond in the amount of $5,000 or $10,000 if the applicant for a
   1-11  permit or holder of a permit has a business located within 1,000
   1-12  feet of the property line of a public school, conditioned on the
   1-13  applicant's or holder's conformance with alcoholic beverage law.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  Section 61.13(a), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
   1-15  amended to read as follows:
   1-16        (a)  Except as provided in Subsection (e) of this section, an
   1-17  applicant for a license or a holder of a license issued under
   1-18  Chapter 69 of this code shall file with the commission a surety
   1-19  bond in the amount of $5,000 or $10,000 if the applicant for a
   1-20  license or holder of a license has a business located within 1,000
   1-21  feet of the property line of a public school, conditioned on the
   1-22  applicant's or holder's conformance with alcoholic beverage law.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  Sections 11.11(g) and 61.13(g), Alcoholic
   1-24  Beverage Code, are repealed.
    2-1        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
    2-2  applies only to a license or permit issued or renewed on or after
    2-3  that date.  A license or permit issued or renewed before the
    2-4  effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at the
    2-5  time of the issuance or renewal, and the former law is continued in
    2-6  effect for that purpose.
    2-7        SECTION 5.  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.