By Wilson                                             H.B. No. 1872
       74R7200 CAG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to employment harmful to persons younger than 21 years of
    1-3  age on the premises of a holder of an alcoholic beverage permit or
    1-4  license.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Chapter 106, Alcoholic Beverage Code, is amended
    1-7  by adding Section 106.15 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 106.15.  EMPLOYMENT HARMFUL TO PERSONS YOUNGER THAN 21.
    1-9  (a)  The commission or administrator shall cancel a license or
   1-10  permit issued under this code if the license or permit holder
   1-11  employs, authorizes, or induces a person younger than 21 years of
   1-12  age to work on the holder's premises:
   1-13              (1)  in a sexually oriented commercial activity; or
   1-14              (2)  in a place of business permitting, requesting, or
   1-15  requiring a person to work nude.
   1-16        (b)  In this section:
   1-17              (1)  "Nude" means a person who is:
   1-18                    (A)  entirely unclothed; or
   1-19                    (B)  clothed in a manner that leaves uncovered or
   1-20  visible through less than fully opaque clothing any portion of the
   1-21  breasts below the top of the areola of the breasts, if the person
   1-22  is female, or any portion of the genitals or buttocks.
   1-23              (2)  "Sexually oriented commercial activity" has the
   1-24  meaning assigned by Section 43.251, Penal Code.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.