By Puente                                       H.B. No. 3150

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to municipal regulation of use of municipal property.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 282.001, Local Government Code, is

 1-5     amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

 1-6           (c)  The municipality may adopt ordinances regulating the use

 1-7     of public parks, public buildings, and other public grounds of the

 1-8     municipality, including regulating the possession and consumption

 1-9     of alcoholic beverages on public grounds of the municipality.  The

1-10     authority to regulate the possession and consumption of alcoholic

1-11     beverages on public grounds of the municipality is an exception to

1-12     Section 1.06, Alcoholic Beverage Code.

1-13           SECTION 2.  Section 282.002, Local Government Code, is

1-14     amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

1-15           (c)  The municipality may adopt ordinances regulating the use

1-16     of public parks, public buildings, and other public grounds of the

1-17     municipality, including regulating the possession and consumption

1-18     of alcoholic beverages on public grounds of the municipality.  The

1-19     authority to regulate the possession and consumption of alcoholic

1-20     beverages on public grounds of the municipality is an exception to

1-21     Section 1.06, Alcoholic Beverage Code.

1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-24     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,

 2-3     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-4     passage, and it is so enacted.