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.