73R8368 E By Davis H.B. No. 2538 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the regulation of sexually oriented businesses by 1-3 municipalities or counties. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 243.007, Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 243.007. Licenses or Permits. (a) A municipality or 1-8 county may require that an owner or operator of a sexually oriented 1-9 business obtain a license or other permit or renew a license or 1-10 other permit on a periodic basis for the operation of a sexually 1-11 oriented business. An application for a license or other permit 1-12 must be made in accordance with the regulations adopted by the 1-13 municipality or county. 1-14 (b) The municipal or county regulations adopted under this 1-15 chapter may provide for the denial, suspension, or revocation of a 1-16 license or other permit by the municipality or county. 1-17 (c) A municipality or county that requires an owner or 1-18 operator of a sexually oriented business to obtain a license or 1-19 other permit for the operation of the sexually oriented business 1-20 shall hold a public hearing before issuing or denying the license 1-21 or other permit. At the hearing, members of the public must be 1-22 given the opportunity to present testimony. 1-23 (d) A district court has jurisdiction of a suit that arises 2-1 from the denial, suspension, or revocation of a license or other 2-2 permit by a municipality or county. 2-3 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.