1-1     By:  Moncrief                                          S.B. No. 191

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 9, 1997; January 15, 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 licenses to sell beer at retail.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 61.32, Alcoholic Beverage

1-12     Code, is amended to read as follows:

1-13           (c)  In the case of an application to sell beer at retail,

1-14     the county judge shall give due consideration to any

1-15     recommendations made by representatives of the commission, the

1-16     county commissioners or the sheriff or county or district attorney

1-17     of the county where the license is sought, or the mayor, city

1-18     council members or commissioners, or chief of police of the

1-19     incorporated city where the applicant seeks to conduct business.

1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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