80R5547 AJA-F
 
  By: Thompson H.B. No. 2348
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to prohibiting alcoholic beverage license or permit
application by certain persons.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Section 11.13(c), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
amended to read as follows:
       (c)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, a
person who is within the fourth degree by consanguinity or affinity
of a licensee or permittee, as determined under Chapter 573,
Government Code, whose license or permit was canceled under Section
11.61 or 61.71 may not, for a period of three [two] years from the
date of the cancellation, apply for a license or permit in
connection with an establishment at the same location as the
establishment whose license or permit was canceled.
       SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an application for an alcoholic beverage permit or license
submitted on or after the effective date of this Act. An
application submitted before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date
of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
       SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2007.