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.