81R11148 AJA-F
By: Pierson H.B. No. 3331
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to local option alcoholic beverage elections in justice
precincts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 251.80, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to
read as follows:
(a) A local option election held in a justice precinct shall
be held in the territory comprising the justice precinct at the time
the election is held. If a justice precinct has established
[Whenever] a local option status as a result of a previous local
option election [is once legally put into effect as the result of
the vote] in the [a] justice precinct, such status shall remain in
effect until the status is changed as the result of a subsequent
local option election [vote] in the [same territory that comprised
the] precinct [when such status was established]. If the
boundaries of the justice precinct have changed since such status
was established, [the commissioners court shall, for purposes of] a
subsequent local option election will only change the local option
status in the territory that is part of the justice [, define the
boundaries of the original] precinct on the date of the subsequent
local option election. [A local option election may be held within
the territory defined by the commissioners court as constituting
such original precinct.]
(a-1) For purposes of a local option election, a newly
created justice precinct shall be considered to have not held a
local option election on the sale of alcoholic beverages. Any local
option status established in the territory comprising the new
justice precinct that resulted from a local option election held in
the territory when the territory was part of another justice
precinct remains in effect until that status is changed by a local
option election held in the new justice precinct.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.