By: Leedom S.B. No. 125
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to local option elections held under the Alcoholic
1-2 Beverage Code.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 251.11, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec 251.11. REQUIREMENTS TO ORDER ELECTION. The
1-7 commissioners court, at its next regular session after the petition
1-8 is filed, shall order a local option election to be held on the
1-9 issue set out in the petition if the petition is filed with the
1-10 registrar of voters not later than 30 days after it is issued and
1-11 bears the actual handwriting of the signers the following:
1-12 (1) the actual signatures of qualified voters of the
1-13 political subdivision equal to 35 percent of the votes cast
1-14 <registered voters> in the subdivision for governor in the last
1-15 preceding general election for that office.
1-16 (2) a notation showing the residence address of each
1-17 of the signers; and
1-18 (3) each signer's voter registration certificate
1-19 number.
1-20 SECTION 2. The Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-21 SECTION 3. 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.