By:  Cain                                             S.B. No. 1519
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to alcohol sales or service by certain permittees.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Section 109.57(e), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
 1-4     amended as follows:
 1-5           (e)  A municipality located in a county that has a population
 1-6     of 1.2 million or more and that is adjacent to a county with a
 1-7     population of more than 250,000 or a municipality located in a
 1-8     county with a population of 250,000 or more and that is adjacent to
 1-9     a county with a population of 1.2 million or more may regulate, in
1-10     a manner not otherwise prohibited by law, the location of an
1-11     establishment issued a permit under Chapter 32 or 33 if:
1-12                 (1)  the establishment derives 35 percent or more of
1-13     the establishment's gross revenue from the on-premises sale or
1-14     service of alcoholic beverages and the premises of the
1-15     establishment are located in a dry area; and
1-16                 (2)  the permit is not issued to a fraternal or
1-17     veterans organization or the holder of a food and beverage
1-18     certificate.
1-19           In administering this section a municipality may require a
1-20     permittee to provide audited financial statements showing the ratio
1-21     of alcohol sales to all other sales on the premises if the
1-22     permittee is not a fraternal or veterans organization or does not
 2-1     hold a food and beverage certificate.
 2-2           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-3     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-4     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-5     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-6     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.