By Wilson H.B. No. 1441
76R6253 MCK-D
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 MINORS. (a) In this
1-9 section:
1-10 (1) "Nude" means a person who is:
1-11 (A) entirely unclothed; or
1-12 (B) clothed in a manner that leaves uncovered or
1-13 visible through less than fully opaque clothing any portion of the
1-14 breasts below the top of the areola of the breasts, if the person
1-15 is female, or any portion of the genitals or buttocks.
1-16 (2) "Sexually oriented commercial activity" has the
1-17 meaning assigned by Section 43.251, Penal Code.
1-18 (b) The commission or administrator shall cancel a license
1-19 or permit issued under this code if the license or permit holder
1-20 employs, authorizes, or induces a minor to work on the holder's
1-21 premises:
1-22 (1) in a sexually oriented commercial activity; or
1-23 (2) in a place of business permitting, requesting, or
1-24 requiring a person to work nude.
2-1 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-2 (b) The change in law made by this Act applies only to a
2-3 violation described by Section 106.15, Alcoholic Beverage Code, as
2-4 added by this Act, that occurs on or after the effective date of
2-5 this Act.
2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.