By Giddings H.B. No. 3114 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the local regulation of the location of businesses 1-3 selling alcoholic beverages and the consumption of alcoholic 1-4 beverages within 1,500 feet of schools. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Sections 109.57, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-8 (e) The governing body of a municipality by ordinance may 1-9 zone, in a manner as otherwise permitted by law for the location of 1-10 an establishment holding a license or permit under this code whose 1-11 place of business is within 1,500 feet of a public or private 1-12 school. The measurement of the distance between the establishment 1-13 and the public or private school to the property line of the 1-14 establishment, and in direct line across intersections. 1-15 SECTION 2. Section 109.33 Alcoholic Beverage Code, is 1-16 amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-17 (f) The governing body of municipality by ordinance may 1-18 prohibit an open container or the public consumption of alcoholic 1-19 beverages within 1,500 feet of a public or private school. 1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.