By: Yarbrough H.B. No. 625 73R3402 DWS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the local regulation of the location of businesses 1-3 selling alcoholic beverages. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 109.33, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-7 (f) The commissioners court of a county may enact 1-8 regulations applicable in areas in the county outside a 1-9 municipality, and the governing body of a municipality may enact 1-10 regulations applicable in the municipality, prohibiting the sale of 1-11 alcoholic beverages on the premises of a sexually oriented business 1-12 that is within 3,000 feet of a church, school, hospital, 1-13 playground, athletic field used by persons under 18 years of age, 1-14 residential neighborhood, or other property the commissioners court 1-15 or governing body finds to be inconsistent with the operation of a 1-16 sexually oriented business. For the purposes of this subsection, 1-17 the measurement of the distance between the place of business where 1-18 alcoholic beverages are sold and the property involved is from the 1-19 nearest property line of the property to the nearest doorway by 1-20 which the public may enter the place of business, along street 1-21 lines and in direct line across intersections. 1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.