By Davis                                              H.B. No. 2538
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a requirement of a hearing before granting or renewing
    1-3  a license or other permit to a sexually oriented business.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 243.007(a), Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  A municipality or county may require that an owner or
    1-8  operator of a sexually oriented business obtain a license or other
    1-9  permit or renew a license or other permit on a periodic basis for
   1-10  the operation of a sexually oriented business.  An application for
   1-11  a license or other permit must be made in accordance with the
   1-12  regulations adopted by the municipality or county.  Before the
   1-13  municipality or county grants or refuses to issue or renew a a
   1-14  license or other permit to a sexually oriented business, the
   1-15  municipality or county shall hold a public hearing.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-22  passage, and it is so enacted.