By Puente H.B. No. 3150 75R7468 PAM-D 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.