By:  Armbrister                                        S.B. No. 170
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to cancelling or prohibiting the issuance of certain
 1-2     original or renewal alcoholic beverage permits or licenses for
 1-3     nonpayment of ad valorem taxes.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 11.38, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
 1-7           (e)  The commission or administrator may cancel or deny a
 1-8     permit for the retail sale or service of alcoholic beverages,
 1-9     including a permit held by the holder of a food and beverage
1-10     certificate, if it finds that the permit holder or applicant has
1-11     not paid delinquent ad valorem taxes due on that permitted premises
1-12     to any taxing authority in the county of the premises.  In this
1-13     subsection, "applicant" has the meaning assigned by Section 11.45.
1-14           SECTION 2.  Section 61.36, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
1-15     amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-16           (d)  The commission or administrator may cancel or deny a
1-17     license for the retail sale of alcoholic beverages, including a
1-18     license held by the holder of a food and beverage certificate, if
1-19     it finds that the license holder or applicant has not paid
1-20     delinquent ad valorem taxes due on that licensed premises to any
1-21     taxing authority in the county of the premises.  In this
1-22     subsection, "applicant" has the meaning assigned by Section 11.45.
1-23           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-24           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.