By: Moncrief S.B. No. 191 97S0086/1 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 shall give due consideration to any 1-8 recommendations made by representatives of the commission, the 1-9 county commissioners or the sheriff or county or district attorney 1-10 of the county where the license is sought, or the mayor, city 1-11 council members or commissioners, or chief of police of the 1-12 incorporated city where the applicant seeks to conduct business. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.