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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