By: Moncrief S.B. No. 63 97S0010/1 09/04/96 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the recommendations of certain local officials 1-3 regarding the issuance of permits by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage 1-4 Commission. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 11.41, Alcoholic Beverage 1-7 Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-8 (a) When a person applies for a permit, the commission or 1-9 administrator shall give due consideration to the recommendations 1-10 of the mayor, city council members or commissioners, chief of 1-11 police, city marshal, or city attorney of the city or town in which 1-12 the premises sought to be licensed are located and of the county 1-13 judge, county commissioners, sheriff, or county or district 1-14 attorney of the county in which the premises sought to be licensed 1-15 are located. If a protest against the issuance of a permit is made 1-16 to the commission by any of these officers and it is found on a 1-17 hearing or finding of facts that the issuance of the permit would 1-18 be in conflict with the provisions of this code, the commission or 1-19 administrator shall enter an order setting forth the reasons for 1-20 refusal. A copy of the order shall be immediately mailed or 1-21 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.