By Garcia H.B. No. 3677
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to requirements of a local option election.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 251.11 Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 251.11. Requirements to Order Election. The
1-7 commissioners court, at its next regular session after the petition
1-8 is filed, shall order a local option election to be held on the
1-9 issue set out in the petition if the petition is filed with the
1-10 registrar of voters not later than [30] 45 days after it is issued
1-11 and bears in the actual handwriting of the signers the following:
1-12 (1) the actual signatures of a number of qualified
1-13 voters of the political subdivision equal to 35 percent of the
1-14 [registered voters] votes cast in the subdivision for Governor in
1-15 the last preceding general election for that office;
1-16 (2) a notation showing the residence address of each
1-17 of the signers; and
1-18 (3) each signer's voter registration certificate
1-19 number.
1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21 SECTION 4. The Importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.