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| 1 | - | By: Hernandez, Murphy, Bohac H.B. No. 256 | |
| 2 | - | (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire) | |
| 3 | - | (In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 2017; | |
| 4 | - | April 12, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on | |
| 5 | - | Business & Commerce; May 3, 2017, reported favorably by the | |
| 6 | - | following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 3, 2017, sent to printer.) | |
| 7 | - | Click here to see the committee vote | |
| 1 | + | H.B. No. 256 | |
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| 10 | - | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 11 | 4 | AN ACT | |
| 12 | 5 | relating to the authority of a city attorney to seek an injunction | |
| 13 | 6 | to abate a common nuisance under the Alcoholic Beverage Code. | |
| 14 | 7 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 15 | 8 | SECTION 1. Section 101.70, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is | |
| 16 | 9 | amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | |
| 17 | 10 | (b-1) The city attorney in the city where the nuisance | |
| 18 | 11 | exists may sue in the name of the city for an injunction to abate and | |
| 19 | 12 | temporarily and permanently enjoin it. Except as otherwise | |
| 20 | 13 | provided in this section, the proceeding is conducted as other | |
| 21 | 14 | similar proceedings. | |
| 22 | 15 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | |
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| 16 | + | ______________________________ ______________________________ | |
| 17 | + | President of the Senate Speaker of the House | |
| 18 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 256 was passed by the House on March | |
| 19 | + | 30, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 125, Nays 14, 1 present, not | |
| 20 | + | voting. | |
| 21 | + | ______________________________ | |
| 22 | + | Chief Clerk of the House | |
| 23 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 256 was passed by the Senate on May | |
| 24 | + | 16, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 1. | |
| 25 | + | ______________________________ | |
| 26 | + | Secretary of the Senate | |
| 27 | + | APPROVED: _____________________ | |
| 28 | + | Date | |
| 29 | + | _____________________ | |
| 30 | + | Governor |