By: Moncrief S.B. No. 63
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the recommendations of certain local officials
1-2 regarding the issuance of permits by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage
1-3 Commission.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 11.41, Alcoholic Beverage
1-6 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) When a person applies for a permit, the commission or
1-8 administrator may [shall] give due consideration to the
1-9 recommendations of the mayor, the city council member or
1-10 commissioner who represents the area in question, chief of police,
1-11 city marshal, or city attorney of the city or town in which the
1-12 premises sought to be licensed are located and of the county judge,
1-13 the county commissioner who represents the area in question,
1-14 sheriff, or county or district attorney of the county in which the
1-15 premises sought to be licensed are located. If a protest against
1-16 the issuance of a permit is made to the commission by any of these
1-17 officers and it is found on a hearing or finding of facts that the
1-18 issuance of the permit would be in conflict with the provisions of
1-19 this code, the commission or administrator shall enter an order
1-20 setting forth the reasons for refusal. A copy of the order shall
1-21 be immediately mailed or delivered to the applicant.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.