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.