Bill Text: TX HB4245 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the percentage of voters needed to sign a petition requesting a local option election to prohibit or authorize the sale of alcoholic beverages.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-14 - Referred to Business & Commerce [HB4245 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4245-Engrossed.html
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By: Bailes, Murr | H.B. No. 4245 |
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relating to the percentage of voters needed to sign a petition | ||
requesting a local option election to prohibit or authorize the | ||
sale of alcoholic beverages. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 501.032(a), Election Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The commissioners court, at its next regular session on | ||
or after the 30th day after the date the petition is filed, shall | ||
order a local option election to be held on the issue set out in the | ||
petition if the petition is filed with the voter registrar not later | ||
than the 60th day after the date the petition is issued and bears | ||
the actual signatures of a number of qualified voters of the | ||
political subdivision equal to at least: | ||
(1) 20 [ |
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subdivision who voted in the most recent gubernatorial election for | ||
a ballot issue that permits voting for or against: | ||
(A) "The legal sale of all alcoholic beverages | ||
for off-premise consumption only."; | ||
(B) "The legal sale of all alcoholic beverages | ||
except mixed beverages."; | ||
(C) "The legal sale of all alcoholic beverages | ||
including mixed beverages."; or | ||
(D) "The legal sale of mixed beverages."; | ||
(2) 20 [ |
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political subdivision who voted in the most recent general election | ||
for a ballot issue that permits voting for or against "The legal | ||
sale of wine on the premises of a holder of a winery permit."; or | ||
(3) 20 [ |
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political subdivision who voted in the most recent gubernatorial | ||
election for an election on any other ballot issue. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
a petition filed on or after the effective date of this Act. A | ||
petition filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by | ||
the law in effect when the petition is filed, and the former law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |