By Nixon                                              H.B. No. 2064
       74R6600 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to holding an election in each county on whether sexually
    1-3  oriented businesses should be allowed to operate in the county.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 243, Local Government Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Section 243.012 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 243.012.  COUNTY ELECTION ON OPERATION OF SEXUALLY
    1-8  ORIENTED BUSINESS.  (a)  Each county judge shall order an election
    1-9  to be held in the county on November 7, 1995, on the question of
   1-10  whether a sexually oriented business may operate in the county.
   1-11        (b)  At the election the ballots shall be prepared to permit
   1-12  voting for or against the following proposition:  "Prohibiting
   1-13  sexually oriented businesses from operating in (name of county)
   1-14  County."
   1-15        (c)  If a majority of the votes received at the election
   1-16  favor the proposition, a sexually oriented business may not operate
   1-17  in the county, including in the territory of a municipality in the
   1-18  county, and an existing sexually oriented business must cease
   1-19  operations in the county not later than the 90th day after the date
   1-20  of the election.
   1-21        (d)  If less than a majority of the votes received at the
   1-22  election favor the proposition, the election has no effect on the
   1-23  operations of a sexually oriented business in the county.
   1-24        (e)  This section does not apply to a business that is exempt
    2-1  from regulation under Section 243.004.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  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,
    2-7  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-8  passage, and it is so enacted.