By Wilson                                              H.B. No. 228

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                                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, 1997.

 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.