By:  Yarbrough                                         H.B. No. 263
       73R1465 SOS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the location of sexually oriented businesses.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 243.006(a), Local Government Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  The location of sexually oriented businesses may be:
    1-7              (1)  restricted to particular areas; or
    1-8              (2)  prohibited within 3,000 feet <a certain distance>
    1-9  of a school, playground, hospital, public park, athletic field,
   1-10  regular place of religious worship, residential neighborhood, or
   1-11  other specified land use the governing body of the municipality or
   1-12  county finds to be inconsistent with the operation of a sexually
   1-13  oriented business.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-20  passage, and it is so enacted.