By Yarbrough H.B. No. 101
74R59 CAG-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.