Amend SB 100 on third reading, by striking the changes made by Floor Amendment No. 1 by Pickett in adding Section 41.001(e), Election Code, and amending Section 501.0211(a), Election Code, and substituting the following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering the existing sections as appropriate:

SECTION ____.  Section 501.109, Election Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 501.109.  ELECTION IN [CERTAIN] MUNICIPALITIES. (a) This section applies only to an election to permit or prohibit the legal sale of alcoholic beverages of one or more of the various types and alcoholic contents in a municipality [that is located in more than one county].

(b)  An election to which this section applies shall be conducted by the municipality instead of a county [the counties].  For the purposes of an election conducted under this section, a reference in this chapter to:

(1)  the county is considered to refer to the municipality;

(2)  the commissioners court is considered to refer to the governing body of the municipality;

(3)  the county clerk or voter registrar is considered to refer to the secretary of the municipality or, if the municipality does not have a secretary, to the person performing the functions of a secretary of the municipality; and

(4)  the county judge is considered to refer to the mayor of the municipality or, if the municipality does not have a mayor, to the presiding officer of the governing body of the municipality.

(c)  The municipality shall pay the expense of the election.

(d)  An action to contest the election under Section 501.155 may be brought in the district court of any county in which the municipality is located.