By:  Patterson                                         H.B. No. 951
       73R3872 DWS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to creation of an offense involving nudity at certain
    1-3  businesses where alcoholic beverages are sold.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 104, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended
    1-6  by adding Section 104.011 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 104.011.  NUDITY OF EMPLOYEES.  (a)  In this section,
    1-8  "nude" means:
    1-9              (1)  entirely unclothed; or
   1-10              (2)  clothed in a manner that leaves uncovered or
   1-11  visible through less than fully opaque clothing any portion of:
   1-12                    (A)  the breasts below the top of the areola of
   1-13  the breasts, if the person is female; or
   1-14                    (B)  the genitals or buttocks.
   1-15        (b)  The holder of a permit or license allowing the sale of
   1-16  an alcoholic beverage for on-premise consumption commits an offense
   1-17  if the permit holder allows an employee to be nude at a public
   1-18  place on the premises covered by the permit.
   1-19        (c)  An offense under this section is a felony of the third
   1-20  degree.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.