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.