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.