1-1     By:  Yarbrough, Gray (Senate Sponsor - Gallegos)      H.B. No. 2491
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999;
 1-3     May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the inspection of the premises of sexually oriented
1-10     businesses for a violation of law.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 243.008, Local Government Code, is
1-13     amended to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 243.008.  INSPECTION.  (a)  A municipality or county may
1-15     inspect a sexually oriented business to determine compliance with
1-16     this chapter and regulations adopted under this chapter by the
1-17     municipality or county.
1-18           (b)  By obtaining a permit or license under Section 243.007,
1-19     a sexually oriented business that permits the consumption of
1-20     alcoholic beverages on the premises consents to the entry by a
1-21     representative of the municipality or county issuing the permit or
1-22     license or by a peace officer for the purpose of inspecting the
1-23     premises for a violation of law.
1-24           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-29     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-30     passage, and it is so enacted.
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