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.
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