78R5067 MCK-D

By:  Gutierrez                                                    H.B. No. 1998



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to changing the titles of the heads of the staff of the 
Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission to executive director and 
assistant executive director.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 5.11, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 5.11.  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR [ADMINISTRATOR].  (a)  The 
commission shall appoint an executive director [administrator] to 
serve at its will and, subject to its supervision, administer this 
code.  Unless the commission orders otherwise, the executive 
director [administrator] shall be manager, secretary, and 
custodian of all records.  The executive director [administrator] 
shall devote the executive director's [his] entire time to the 
office and shall receive a salary as appropriated by the 
legislature.  The executive director [administrator] shall execute 
a bond in the sum of $10,000, payable to the state, and conditioned 
as the commission requires.
	(b)  A reference in this code or another law to the 
administrator of the commission means the executive director.
	SECTION 2.  Section 5.13, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 5.13.  ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR [ADMINISTRATOR].  
The executive director [administrator] shall appoint an assistant 
executive director [administrator].  The assistant executive 
director [administrator] must meet the same qualifications as the 
executive director [administrator].  The assistant executive 
director [administrator] shall take the constitutional oath of 
office and make a bond in the same amount and on the same conditions 
as the executive director's [administrator's] bond.  In the absence 
of the executive director [administrator], or in case of the 
executive director's [his] inability to act, the assistant 
executive director [administrator] shall perform the duties 
conferred on the executive director [administrator] by law or 
delegated to the executive director [administrator] by the 
commission.  If there is a vacancy in the office of executive 
director [administrator], the assistant executive director
[administrator] shall perform the duties of the executive director
[administrator] until an executive director [administrator] has 
been appointed by the commission.  At other times the assistant 
executive director [he] shall perform those duties and have those 
functions, powers, and authority as may be delegated to the 
assistant executive director [him] by the executive director
[administrator].
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.