1-1 By: Armbrister S.B. No. 170 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 15, 1999; January 28, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development; 1-4 March 1, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, 1-5 Nays 0; March 1, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to cancelling or prohibiting the issuance of certain 1-9 original or renewal alcoholic beverage permits or licenses for 1-10 nonpayment of ad valorem taxes. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Section 11.38, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is 1-13 amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-14 (e) The commission or administrator may cancel or deny a 1-15 permit for the retail sale or service of alcoholic beverages, 1-16 including a permit held by the holder of a food and beverage 1-17 certificate, if it finds that the permit holder or applicant has 1-18 not paid delinquent ad valorem taxes due on that permitted premises 1-19 to any taxing authority in the county of the premises. In this 1-20 subsection, "applicant" has the meaning assigned by Section 11.45. 1-21 SECTION 2. Section 61.36, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is 1-22 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-23 (d) The commission or administrator may cancel or deny a 1-24 license for the retail sale of alcoholic beverages, including a 1-25 license held by the holder of a food and beverage certificate, if 1-26 it finds that the license holder or applicant has not paid 1-27 delinquent ad valorem taxes due on that licensed premises to any 1-28 taxing authority in the county of the premises. In this 1-29 subsection, "applicant" has the meaning assigned by Section 11.45. 1-30 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-31 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-32 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-33 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-34 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-35 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-36 * * * * *