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