By:  Moncrief                                          S.B. No. 191

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       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.