AUSTIN, Texas — President Bush’s daughter Jenna Bush was issued a citation early Friday for underage drinking at a bar in Austin, police said.

The incident occurred less than 12 hours before her father, making his first trip back to Austin since becoming president, dedicated a new state history museum just blocks away.

“We don’t comment on the private lives of the president’s family,” said White House spokeswoman Jeanie Mamo.

Austin police spokeswoman Tony Chovanetz said Bush, 19, was not arrested, which she described as standard procedure for handling cases involving minors with alcohol. Chovanetz had no information about any involvement by Secret Service personnel.

Officials said two officers entered the Cheers Shot Bar on Austin’s Sixth Street about 1:30 a.m. Friday to check for minors in possession of alcohol. After issuing four citations, the officers noticed “two females, who appeared to be under age, who were also drinking alcohol.”

After the officers interviewed the two women, it was determined that they were not of legal drinking age, which is 21.

“One of the females was identified as Jenna W. Bush,” according to an Austin police news release. She was issued a citation for minor in possession, a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine or community service. The other woman was not identified.

It is not the first time that Jenna Bush, a student at the University of Texas at Austin, has been at the center of a controversy involving alcohol.

In late February, an 18-year-old who identified himself as Jenna Bush’s boyfriend was arrested in Tarrant County, Texas, on a charge of public intoxication. He was later retrieved by Secret Service agents, according to Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson.

In an interview in December 1999, early in the presidential campaign, George W. Bush acknowledged concerns about the privacy of his twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara. Barbara Bush is a freshman at Yale University.

“One of my great hesitancies about making this race is I really don’t want their lives to be affected by me, and I know it’s going to be,” Bush said then. “It is something that troubles me because I love them and I can understand,” he said.