1-1 By: Moncrief S.B. No. 63 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed November 12, 1996; January 14, 1997, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; March 20, 1997, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 20, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the recommendations of certain local officials 1-9 regarding the issuance of permits by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage 1-10 Commission. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 11.41, Alcoholic Beverage 1-13 Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-14 (a) When a person applies for a permit, the commission or 1-15 administrator shall give due consideration to the recommendations 1-16 of the mayor, city council members or commissioners, chief of 1-17 police, city marshal, or city attorney of the city or town in which 1-18 the premises sought to be licensed are located and of the county 1-19 judge, county commissioners, sheriff, or county or district 1-20 attorney of the county in which the premises sought to be licensed 1-21 are located. If a protest against the issuance of a permit is made 1-22 to the commission by any of these officers and it is found on a 1-23 hearing or finding of facts that the issuance of the permit would 1-24 be in conflict with the provisions of this code, the commission or 1-25 administrator shall enter an order setting forth the reasons for 1-26 refusal. A copy of the order shall be immediately mailed or 1-27 delivered to the applicant. 1-28 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-29 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-34 * * * * *