By Davila                                             H.B. No. 2254
       74R7175 DLF-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the licensing fees for certain tanning facilities.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 145.010, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 145.010.  FEES.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection
    1-7  (b), the <The> department shall set and collect a permit fee of $50
    1-8  and an annual permit renewal fee of $35.
    1-9        (b)  The department shall set and collect a permit fee of
   1-10  $550 and an annual permit renewal fee of $250 for a tanning
   1-11  facility that operates as a sexually oriented business under a
   1-12  license or permit issued in accordance with Section 243.007, Local
   1-13  Government Code.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-20  passage, and it is so enacted.