1-1 By: Goolsby (Senate Sponsor - Leedom) H.B. No. 1329
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 1995;
1-3 May 2, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 12, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 12, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to cancellation of certain alcoholic beverage licenses for
1-9 failure to pay local fees.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 61.36(b), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) The commission or administrator may cancel a license if
1-14 it finds the licensee <permittee> has not paid a fee levied <by a
1-15 city> under this section. A licensee who sells an alcoholic
1-16 beverage without first having paid a fee levied under this section
1-17 commits a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $10 nor
1-18 more than $200.
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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