1-1 By: Haggerty (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire) H.B. No. 2745
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 1997;
1-3 April 29, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the location of certain hearings affecting the status
1-9 of alcoholic beverage permits.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 11.015, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 11.015. HEARING LOCATION. Notwithstanding any other
1-14 provision of this code, except for a hearing required to be
1-15 conducted by a county judge, a hearing related to the issuance,
1-16 renewal, cancellation, or suspension of a permit under this
1-17 subtitle may be conducted:
1-18 (1) [only] in the county in which the premises is
1-19 located;
1-20 (2) at the nearest permanent hearing office of the
1-21 State Office of Administrative Hearings; or
1-22 (3) at any location agreed to by the parties.
1-23 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-24 (b) The change in law made by this Act applies only to a
1-25 hearing that begins on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-26 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-28 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-29 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-30 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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