By Davila H.B. No. 1120 75R4533 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the employment of minors on the premises of a sexually 1-3 oriented business; providing a criminal penalty. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Title 132, Revised Statutes, is amended by adding 1-6 Article 9031 to read as follows: 1-7 Art. 9031. SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESSES 1-8 Sec. 1. DEFINITIONS. In this article: 1-9 (1) "Employee of a sexually oriented business" means a 1-10 person who, on the premises of a sexually oriented business, is 1-11 nude or is performing any part of the person's employment relating 1-12 to the operation of the sexually oriented business. The term 1-13 includes an independent contractor or other person not directly 1-14 employed by the owner or operator of a sexually oriented business. 1-15 The term does not include a person who: 1-16 (A) does not have a full-time or part-time job 1-17 that requires the person's regular presence on the premises of a 1-18 sexually oriented business; and 1-19 (B) does not appear nude on the premises. 1-20 (2) "Nude" means: 1-21 (A) entirely unclothed; or 1-22 (B) clothed in a manner that leaves uncovered or 1-23 visible through less than fully opaque clothing any portion of the 1-24 female breasts below the top of the areola or any portion of the 2-1 genitals or buttocks. 2-2 (3) "Sexually oriented business" has the meaning 2-3 assigned by Section 243.002, Local Government Code. 2-4 Sec. 2. AGE RESTRICTIONS. (a) A person younger than 21 2-5 years of age may not be an employee of a sexually oriented 2-6 business. 2-7 (b) A person who owns, operates, or employs persons to work 2-8 on the premises of a sexually oriented business may not, with 2-9 criminal negligence, employ a person younger than 21 years of age 2-10 to work on the premises of the business. 2-11 (c) A person commits an offense if the person violates this 2-12 section. An offense under this subsection is a Class A 2-13 misdemeanor. 2-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.