81R27050 AJA-F
By: Pierson, Eiland, Gutierrez, et al. H.B. No. 3331
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3331:
By: Gutierrez C.S.H.B. No. 3331
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to local option alcoholic beverage elections to change the
status of an existing voting unit.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 251.72, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 251.72. CHANGE OF STATUS. (a) Except as provided in
Section 251.73 [of this code], an authorized voting unit that has
exercised or may exercise the right of local option retains the
status adopted, whether absolute prohibition or legalization of the
sale of alcoholic beverages of one or more of the various types and
alcoholic contents on which an issue may be submitted under the
terms of Section 501.035, Election Code, until that status is
changed by a subsequent local option election in the same
authorized voting unit.
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a subsequent local
option election shall be held within the boundaries of the
authorized voting unit as they exist on the date of the election,
and the results of the election are effective within those
boundaries.
(c) Subsection (b) does not apply to a local option election
in a justice precinct in a county containing only one justice
precinct.
SECTION 2. Section 251.80, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) This section applies only to a county containing only
one justice precinct.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.