By Corte H.B. No. 3402
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to redefining the term Amusement Services.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 151.0028, Tax Code is amended to read as
1-5 follows.
1-6 Sec. 151.0028. Amusement Services. (a) "Amusement
1-7 services" means the provision of amusement, entertainment, or
1-8 recreation, but does not include the provision of educational or
1-9 health services if prescribed by a licensed practitioner of the
1-10 healing arts for the primary purpose of education or health
1-11 maintenance or improvement.
1-12 (b) "Amusement services" includes membership in a private
1-13 club or organization that provides entertainment, recreational,
1-14 sports, dining or restaurant services, golf [or] and social
1-15 facilities to its members.
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, except
1-17 that a civil or criminal penalty for a violation of Section 35.102,
1-18 Business & Commerce Code, as added by this Act, may be imposed only
1-19 for a violation that occurs on or after January 1, 1998.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 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.