By Giddings H.B. No. 588
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to allowing a governmental entity to regulate certain
1-3 establishments required to have an alcoholic beverage license or
1-4 permit.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 109.57(d), Alcoholic Beverage Code, is
1-7 amended to read as follows:
1-8 (d) This section does not affect the authority of a
1-9 governmental entity to regulate, in a manner as otherwise permitted
1-10 by law, the location of:
1-11 (1) a massage parlor, nude modeling studio, or other
1-12 sexually oriented business; or
1-13 (2) an establishment that derives 75 percent or more
1-14 of the establishment's gross revenue from the <on-premise> sale of
1-15 alcoholic beverages for consumption on or off the establishment's
1-16 premises.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.