By Davila                                             H.B. No. 2255
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a warning sign at certain tanning facilities.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 145, Health and Safety Code, is amended
    1-5  by adding Section 145.0065 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 145.0065.  WARNING SIGN:  SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESS.  A
    1-7  tanning facility that operates as a sexually oriented business
    1-8  under a license or permit issued in accordance with Section
    1-9  243.007, Local Government Code, shall post a warning sign in a
   1-10  conspicuous place readily visible to a person entering the
   1-11  facility.  The sign must have dimensions of at least 12 X 18 inches
   1-12        THIS ESTABLISHMENT IS LICENSED AS A SEXUALLY ORIENTED
   1-13        BUSINESS.    THE PRIMARY SERVICE PROVIDED BY THIS
   1-14        ESTABLISHMENT IS NOT TANNING.
   1-15        PROSTITUTION AND SOLICITATION OF PROSTITUTION ARE
   1-16        CRIMES UNDER THE LAWS OF THIS STATE.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-18        (b)  A tanning facility that is operating on the effective
   1-19  date of this Act and that is required to post a sign under Section
   1-20  145.0065, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act,  shall post
   1-21  the sign not later than September 30, 1995.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.