1-1     By:  Shapiro                                           S.B. No. 377
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 24, 2001; January 25, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce;
 1-4     March 8, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 8, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to a local option election for the sale of beer and wine
 1-9     in certain cities or towns located in more than one county.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 251.18, Alcoholic
1-12     Beverage Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (a)  This section applies only to an election to permit or
1-14     prohibit the legal sale of:
1-15                 (1)  mixed beverages by a food and beverage certificate
1-16     holder in an incorporated city or town that is located in more than
1-17     one county; or
1-18                 (2)  beer and wine in an incorporated city or town
1-19     that:
1-20                       (A)  does not permit beer and wine sales on
1-21     September 1, 2001; and
1-22                       (B)  is located in two counties:
1-23                             (i)  that each have a population of at
1-24     least 250,000 but not more than one million; and
1-25                             (ii)  one of which contains a city or town
1-26     with a population of 125,000 or more.
1-27           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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