By Denny, et al. H.B. No. 272 74R1344 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of a municipality or county to regulate a 1-3 sexually oriented business. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 243.002, Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 243.002. Definition. In this chapter, "sexually 1-8 oriented business" means a sex parlor, nude studio, modeling 1-9 studio, love parlor, adult bookstore, adult movie theater, adult 1-10 video arcade, adult movie arcade, adult video store, adult motel, 1-11 adult tanning salon, lingerie modeling studio, or other commercial 1-12 enterprise the primary business of which is the offering of a 1-13 service or the selling, renting, or exhibiting of devices or any 1-14 other items intended to provide sexual stimulation or sexual 1-15 gratification to the customer. 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.