AN ACT
1-1 relating to the recommendations of certain local officials
1-2 regarding the issuance of licenses to sell beer at retail.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 61.32, Alcoholic Beverage
1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (c) In the case of an application to sell beer at retail,
1-7 the county judge may [shall] give due consideration to any
1-8 recommendations made by representatives of the commission, the
1-9 county commissioner who represents the area in question or the
1-10 sheriff or county or district attorney of the county where the
1-11 license is sought, or the mayor, city council member or
1-12 commissioner who represents the area in question, or chief of
1-13 police of the incorporated city where the applicant seeks to
1-14 conduct business.
1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 191 passed the Senate on
April 9, 1997, by a viva-voce vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 191 passed the House on
May 7, 1997, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor