75R13545 BEM-D                           

         By Hawley                                             H.B. No. 1922

         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1922:

         By Wilson                                         C.S.H.B. No. 1922

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to cancelling or prohibiting the issuance of certain

 1-3     original or renewal alcoholic beverage permits or licenses for

 1-4     nonpayment of ad valorem taxes.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 11.38, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is

 1-7     amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:

 1-8           (e)  The commission or administrator may cancel or deny a

 1-9     permit for the retail sale or service of alcoholic beverages,

1-10     including a permit held by the holder of a food and beverage

1-11     certificate, if it finds that the permit holder or applicant has

1-12     not paid delinquent ad valorem taxes due on that permitted premises

1-13     to any taxing authority in the county of the premises.  In this

1-14     subsection, "applicant" has the meaning assigned by Section 11.45.

1-15           SECTION 2.  Section 61.36, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is

1-16     amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:

1-17           (d)  The commission or administrator may cancel or deny a

1-18     license for the retail sale of alcoholic beverages, including a

1-19     license held by the holder of a food and beverage certificate, if

1-20     it finds that the license holder or applicant has not paid

1-21     delinquent ad valorem taxes due on that licensed premises to any

1-22     taxing authority in the county of the premises.  In this

1-23     subsection, "applicant" has the meaning assigned by Section 11.45.

1-24           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-1           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.