By Yarbrough                                           H.B. No. 630

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the authority of a municipality or county to impose

 1-3     specific distance requirements regarding the location of a sexually

 1-4     oriented business.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 243.006, Local Government Code, is

 1-7     amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

 1-8           (c)  In addition to any other regulation a municipality or

 1-9     county may adopt under this chapter, the municipality or county may

1-10     prohibit the location of a sexually oriented business within 1,500

1-11     feet of a public or private school, a church or other regular place

1-12     of worship, a park, a playground or athletic field, a day care or

1-13     child care center, an adult care center, a hospital or nursing

1-14     facility, or an area, determined by the governing body of the

1-15     municipality or county, that is used primarily as a residential

1-16     neighborhood.

1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.